"When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves."

-- Albert Camus

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“Theres gonna be times in life when people tell you that you can't, thats when you just gotta turn around and say watch me.”
“Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.”

Source : Irving Penn, Virginia Heckert, Anne Lacoste, J. Paul Getty Museum (2009). “Irving Penn: Small Trades”, p.18, Getty Publications
“The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.”
“The kind of violence one should fear is always quiet and comes all wrapped up in words like Love until you live with it daily and you value only that which is valuable to the violator.”
“It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.”
“Nothing grows among its pinnacles; there is no shade except under great toadstools of sandstone whose bases have been eaten to the shape of wine glasses by the wind. Everything is flaking, cracking, disintegrating, wearing away in the long, inperceptible weather of time. The ash of ancient volcanic outbursts still sterilizes its soil, and its colors in that waste are the colors that flame in the lonely sunsets on dead planets.”
“Iâ€™d gone heavy on the black eye makeup until raccoons and I could pass for cousins.”
“To change masters is not to be free.”

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