"Stay away from Europe, stay away from Japan, Australia. If you go to the Western world, you're gonna pay more money. You can spend five months in Bali for what you'd spend in one month in Europe."

-- Rita Gelman

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“The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.”
“You can't close your eyes to the lies perpetrated by dangerous fools / 'cos they're handing out rules”
“Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in their pregnant causes mixed/ Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,/ Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain/ His dark materials to create more worlds,--/ Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross.”
“You don’t take pictures, the good ones happen to you.”
“That's when I began drinking coffee. I was hung up on every little thing. I loved Paris, and felt straightaway at home. Not to be grandiose, but it seemed like all the city had been waiting for me.”

Source : Rosecrans Baldwin (2012). “Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down”, p.11, Macmillan
“Thatâ€™s the thing you have to understand about the whole process of art (or the work that we do) â€“ youâ€™re only half of the equation. Itâ€™s an interaction between you and the person whoâ€™s going to experience the work. The person whoâ€™s going to experience the work is bringing just as much to it and is just as important as you are.”
“In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public.”
“People that complete other people's vision are understated.”

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