"The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life."

-- Charles Saatchi

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“My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.”
“People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future;”
“Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.”
“Every time I fall in love with a book, I just feel grateful and thrilled to have it in my life.”
“I dont really want to say need because to me--an aggressive, liberated woman--need sounds too pathetic. But maybe Im wrong. Maybe need and want sometimes go together. Maybe I do need and want a man.”
“When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment, Steven watched the protests and the preparations with interest. The bird people were furious, the developers unmovable, and Steven was filled with relief that the fight wasn't his. Nothing here was his... He thought there should have been something sad about how little he was tied up with the place, but instead it felt like freedom. He was free because it wasn't his water here, and they weren't his fish.”
“The purpose of finance is to enable business to acquire the ownership of capital instruments before it has saved the funds to buy and pay for them. The logic used by business in investing is things that will pay for themselves is not today available to the 95% born without capital. Most of us owe instead of own. And the less the economy needs our labor, the less able we are to "save" our way to capital ownership.”
“I learned early on to never walk while I was on the ball field. I ran everywhere I went.”

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