"Achilles, without his heel, you wouldn't even know his name today."

-- Stan Lee

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“Floating high on the waters of catastrophe”

Source : Julien Gracq (2017). “Balcony in the Forest”, p.99, New York Review of Books
“Trust me no tortures which the poets feign Can match the fierce unutterable pain He feels, who night and day devoid of rest Carries his own accuser in his breast.”
“It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.”
“If not us, then who? If not now, then when?”
“I have bitten down or swallowed a few pellets through the years. My uncle had his appendix removed and there were over 100 lead pellets in it. He might have died of lead poisoning. Now that is eating a lot of game!”
“consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.”
“Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.”
“It turns out it takes 30 years for a new idea to seep into the culture. Technology does not drive change. It is our collective response to the options and opportunities presented by technology that drives change.”

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