"How could one be in this world without feeling dismayed by it? Even if one paints flowers and gingerbread."

-- Gerhard Richter

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“There is no escape from mystery. It is the character of our being.”
“Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.”
“That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each.”
“What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.”
“There's something Vichy about the French.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think America is changing. I think we are becoming a country that is not as welcoming to immigrants anymore. You have a president Donald Trump just last week who was retweeting anti-Muslim videos. That causes great harm to the Muslim-American community in this country who are law-abiding, faithful, yet patriotic people in this country. And it's sad that they are denigrated in that fashion.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.”

Source : "Poetry Questions: Stephen Dobyns" by Rebecca Foresman, www.newyorker.com. April 2, 2012.
“Photography, of course, is the perfect medium for the investigation. It can reveal the truth of present day specifics and particularities, while at the same time, by conscious choice of lighting and pictorial structure, suggest the aesthetic legacy of the past.”

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