"Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced."

-- Hans Hofmann

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“Loneliness doesnâ€™t exist on any single plane of consciousness. Itâ€™s generally a low throb, barely audible, like the hum of a Mercedes engine in park, but every so often the demands of the highway call for a burst of acceleration, and the hum becomes a thunderous, elemental roar, and once again youâ€™re reminded of what this babyâ€™s carrying under the hood.”
“My ***** may be dumb, but I ain't no dumbass.”
“Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.”
“The gap between compassion and surrender is loveâ€™s darkest, deepest region.”

Source : Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.140, Faber & Faber
“And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.”
“When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.”
“I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear.”
“The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.”

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