"you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with ***** that forgot to get old."

-- Charles Bukowski

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“I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you for it.”
“Here's my take, for what it's worth: I think that a lot of people in the US, as well as other countries, have the idea that animation is primarily for children, and kids like to be entertained! And animated films here tend to have crazy fantastic situations that would be difficult to do in live action, like with talking animals or monsters or whatnot, and that lends itself well to comedy, I think.”
“The voice of experience keeps its mouth shut.”
“I got more publicity for not doing a festival than for doing the festival.”
“It is the individual artist who must act courageously in an effort to grow.”
“Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.”

Source : Roberto Calasso (2010). “Literature and the Gods”, p.34, Vintage
“Many, many large cities have old, crumbling infrastructure that have got to be dealt with in the nearest future, or they're going to be in serious trouble. They'll be unlivable if they don't do something.”
“The university is one of various funding structures by which people who want to do theoretical work stay alive, the same way that people go to grad school, not because they think it's going to change the world but because there's no patron system anymore, and they need some scaffolding of support while they're trying to figure out how they can proceed in their lives. I think that's utterly legit. A lot of our better theorists and thinkers, that's what the university is for them.”

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