"The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals."

-- Alfred North Whitehead

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“We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.”
“Old friend, there are peopleâ€”young and oldâ€”that I like, and people that I do not like. The former are always in short supply. I am turned off by humorless fanaticism, whether it's revolutionary mumbo-jumbo by a young one, or loud lessons from scripture by and old one. We are all comical, touching, slapstick animals, walking on our hind legs, trying to make it a noble journey from womb to tomb, and the people who can't see it all that way bore hell out of me.”
“How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.”
“It looks tough for Palace when you see some of the results they've got coming up.”
“My entire concept of lifestyle is built on the foundation of my homes. There is no more important expression of this concept than that of my own personal living space.”
“The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.”
“The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.”
“Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind.”

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