"I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987"

-- Paul Muldoon

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“I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.”
“If I put myself on the side of those who see the world as warming up in a bad way, who see the general march of industrial culture as something undesirable, the one thing I must be beware of doing and which my colleagues on that side don't beware of doing, we must beware of saying we've got to stop changing the environment. There is no 'the' environment which we can change, the world is changing all the time.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“a great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make ...”
“I say not one penny more to countries that are burning our flag.”
“Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.”
“I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.”
“There's an inherent limit to the stress that any material can bear. Water has its boiling point, metals their melting points. The elements of the spirit behave the same way. Happiness can reach a pitch so great that any further happiness can't be felt. Pain, despair, humiliation, disgust, and fear are no different. Once the vessel is full, the world can't add to it.”
“I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.”

Source : Ita G. Berkow, Edward Hopper (1996). “Edward Hopper: An American Master”, Smithmark Publishers

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