"To deal with reality you must first recognize it as such."

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Source : Laurence Gonzales (2017). “Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why”, p.35, W. W. Norton & Company

Laurence Gonzales

#Reality Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Deals Quotes

“The art market is global now, and theres becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.”
“Knit on with confidence and hope through all crises.”
“Bold objects require conservative engineering.”
“I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they're kind of aging, and the one guy had dyed blonde hair with black roots, and... my idea was to get a little earring, I wanted to have a dangling earring.”
“You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.”

Source : Song: Weight Of The World
“The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who had made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth.”
“Resistance here doesn't mean revolution. It doesn't mean storming the barricades. Resistance means using art for the things that it does best, which is to create human portraits and communicate ideas and forge a climate where people of different races or classes are known to you because they make themselves known. In the simplest terms, art humanizes. It opens the circuit of empathy. And once that process happens, it's that much harder to think of people as part of a policy or a statistic. Art reverses the alienation that can creep into society.”
“Jazz is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.”

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