"A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find."

-- Mark Kurlansky

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“When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.”

Source : "A door to freedom" by Chris Ofili, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2009.
“In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics.”

Source : "The Firm, the Market, and the Law (Note on the problem of social costs)". Book by Ronald Coase (p. 185), 1988.
“There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him.”
“I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I would be drenched by all rains, moistened by all dews. I would roll like frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots into curfew into vestiges of temples into precious stones remote enough to discourage miners. Whoever would not understand me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger.”
“We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Willie Nelson from Feb 13, 2014
“I want Bolivians to support their president.”
“To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable.”
“Kevin [Drew] beat me to the punch because when he first sent "Sister OK" and I'm listening to it, it took me to a place that I had not been to in a long time. It took me to a place when you're a teenager. I understand it all now, but in a moment of confusion, in a moment of trying to find some kind of solid ground in an environment that was quicksand in my life, it's that first line just kills me all the time: "Well it's just that your sister said you'd be OK."”

Source : Source: www.popmatters.com

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