"There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle."

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Source : "The Subject of an Arbus" by Jessie Wender, www.newyorker.com. April 8, 2014.

Diane Arbus

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“There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color.”
“Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.”
“A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection.”
“Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.”
“You are a light that will always guide me, a whisper I'll always strain to hear.”
“ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.”
“Hey! Don't laugh at me for that cupcake thing. I enjoy cupcakes, therefore EVERYONE should enjoy cupcakes.”
“And we can't discharge that moral responsibility by passing out contraceptives. Contraceptives have been circulating all over Uganda, and it is not clear how many people are using the things. The best contraceptive in this case is abstinence.”

Source : "Silence is Death". Interview with Eva Thorne, bostonreview.net. April/May 1999.

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