"I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death."

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David LaChapelle

#Thinking Quotes #Fragility Quotes #Decay Quotes

“It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.”
“It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.”
“The gospel of a God found in broken flesh, humility, and measureless charity has defeated all the old lies, rendered the ancient order visibly insufficient and even slightly absurd, and instilled in us a longing for transcendent love so deep that-if once yielded to-it will never grant us rest anywhere but in Christ.”
“If some people can imagine that a person they love is alive in another world, why can't I imagine Maurice is alive in this one An artist is a person who uses art to run away from reality. It's not wrong-it's survival. There's nothing wrong with me creating a world in which Maurice is alive.”
“But he was so great!' Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on a vacation”
“Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.”
“One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.”
“Since the late 1970's, the main focus of prisons has been punishment, not rehabilitation. It's hard to believe, but you would be hard-pressed to find a meaningful violence-prevention class in a federal or state penitentiary. And 'we the people' are footing the bill to keep these folks imprisoned. It costs on average $46,000 a year to keep an adult incarcerated in California and about the same for New York State.”

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