"Art cannot save anybody from anything."

-- Gilbert Sorrentino

“The only thing happening in San Diego County is Eno and closet homosexuality.”
“Coin matching and finger flashing were among the first formal games to arise in the history of gambling. The class of Morra games extends back to the pre-Christian era, although not until comparatively recent times have game-theoretic solutions been derived.”

Source : "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.
“Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in an extremist way. You're not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I'd be devastated.”
“I love to play bid whist as much as I love football.”
“I don't see the government as a beverage vending machine, where anyone who happens to be thirsty can grab a drink.”
“I'm too ambitious to give another man credit, even if that other man is only myself in disguise.”
“When you know what you like and what you want and you're able to nudge things in the right direction, that's more profitable than ever, because there's so much information out there. Everything's saturated. Tastemaker is probably the most overused word, but I still think it's important.”
“I have had more magazine covers in the last 25 years than I have had in my whole elongated career. [...] Today I am in a territory that business considers unmarketable: age and white hair. Slowly, however, I started to own that territory little by little because I stood up for age.”

Source : "FASHION ICON CARMEN DELL’OREFICE ON LOVE, SEX & SECRETS TO HER SUCCESS". New You Interview, www.newyou.com. February 10, 2015.

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