"Making a painting is like having sex for a month or something. Then I go through this period of elation at finishing the work. Then you drop off - you know, 'post-coital man is sad,' as the old saying goes."

-- Tim Zuck

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“We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us.”
“Most lead lives at worst so painful, at best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principle appetites of the soul.”
“Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant, and hate be changed into love; ideas may be quickened, intelligence widened, and men's hearts may be ennobled; but from pessimism which can see nothing but gloomy visions nothing is to be expected.”
“There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.”

Source : D. A. Carson (2006). “How Long, O Lord?: Reflections on Suffering and Evil”, p.72, Baker Academic
“Monsters work seven days a week and don't take vacations.”
“We kiss all the time." I clear my throat, then add, "We just...do it in private.”
“The probability of a fatal nuclear detonation is greater now than at any time during the Cold War. As the Russian military deteriorates, and as rogue governments and terrorists seek to acquire nuclear capabilities, the threat continues to grow.”
“There's so many good books, but I'm always like, "I'm sorry, I have five more Faulkners to read, I can't be bothered." Most of the time when you try, you fall on the wrong one.”

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