"Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium."

-- Camille Paglia

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“Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word.”
“Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.”
“Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.”
“I spent one night in the hospital in my life. I was past 75 when that occurred.”
“It will happen when you're not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise.”
“Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference.”

Source : Martha Ostenso (1927). “The Mad Carews”, New York : Dodd, Mead
“As artists, we bear the charge of signalling, guiding, communicating and inspiriting change.”
“Illness is the proving ground of friendship.”

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