"I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer."

-- Alberto Moravia

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“I'm half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all.”
“I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it. It was possible to live through the decade preoccupied by the mortgage and the pence you saved on your income tax. It was also possible for those of us who saw what was happening to turn our eyes in a different direction; but what, in another decade, had been a trip to the clap clinic was now a trip to the mortuary.”

Source : Derek Jarman (1993). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”
“Money is another pressure. I'm not complaining, I'm just saying that there's a certain luxury in having no money. I spent ten years in New York not having it, not worrying about it. Suddenly you have it, then you worry, where is it going? Am I doing the right thing with it?”
“Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.”
“The vast majority of golfers don't go on to play golf as a profession, but they do go onto other professions where there will heat on them from time to time. Some people choke under pressure. If you have that as part of your character - that you don't perform well under pressure - it's really important for you to know that. The game teaches you about that.”

Source : "A conversation with PGA golfer Stewart Cink". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. January, 2012.
“We cannot continue to close our eyes to the fact that we have to truly embrace green jobs, new technologies and alternative sources of energy.”

Source : "Politico interview: Gov. Fortuno". Interview with Alexander Burns & Michael Falcone, www.politico.com. May 22, 2009.
“the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”

Source : On the Road pt. 1, ch. 1 (1957)
“The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us”

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