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“You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.”
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“The skin is a variety of contingency: in it, through it, with it, the world and my body touch each other, the feeling and the felt, it defines their common edge. Contingency means common tangency: in it the world and the body intersect and caress each other. I do not wish to call the place in which I live a medium, I prefer to say that things mingle with each other and that I am no exception to that. I mix with the world which mixes with me. Skin intervenes between several things in the world and makes them mingle.”
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“Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In a way, it's an argument for record collecting.”
Source : Source: pitchfork.com
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“It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.”
Source : Usenet article "Gay and straight", groups.google.com. February 14, 2003.
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“Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.”
Source : Pliny (the Younger.), William Melmoth (1805). “The Letters of Pliny the Consul”, p.51
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“We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.”
Source : “'I Can’t Talk Fellowship': Lessons From the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in the Wake of the BP Oil Disaster" by Cherri Foytlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2013.
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“Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.”
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“Firemen have the coolest toys ever!”