"The twentieth-century artist who uses symbols is alienated because the system of symbols is a private one. After you have dealt with the symbols you are still private, you are still lonely, because you are not sure anyone will understand it except yourself. The ransom of privacy is that you are alone."

-- Louise Bourgeois

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“The only reason that Jews are in ***** is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks.”
“Superheroes allow their capes to hang off their backs; but our Superwomen choose to wrap them around their heads.”
“I have to stop watching the Olympics. It just reminds me that I forgot to try really hard at something.”
“Say what you wanna say and let the words fall out honestly.”

Source : Song: Brave, Album: The Blessed Unrest, 2013
“What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.”
“I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.”
“The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.”

Source : James Agate (1951). “The Later Ego: Consisting of Ego 8 and Ego 9”
“The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.”

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