"The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history."

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Robert Rauschenberg

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“Hey, any team can have a bad century.”
“I didn't want everybody to be pretty. I didn't want everybody to be thing. I didn't want everybody to be a size 4. I wanted it to be like the world. I think that we got there, and that was really special. I wanted texture and grit to everything. And then, you have an actress like Sarah Gadon, where you could rub dirt on her face and she'd look like she stepped off of a Vogue cover, and that's fine.”
“Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to beâ€”or to be indistinguishable fromâ€”self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.”

Source : "Cryptonomicon". Book by Neal Stephenson, 1999.
“I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.”
“Drugs have taught an entire generation of kids the metric system”
“I wept when the muse Ulla bent over me. Blinded by tears I could not prevent her from kissing me, I could not prevent the Muse from giving me that terrible kiss. All of you who have ever been kissed by the Muse will surely understand that Oskar, once branded by that kiss, was condemned to take back the drum he had rejected years before, the drum he had buried in the sand of Sapse Cemetery.”
“Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom.”
“Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.”

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