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Becca Fitzpatrick

"I tilted my chin up a fraction. "You can't f-force me to stay here." I'd only agreed to come this far because I didn't want to stand out in the downpour, for one, and I had high hopes of finding a phone, for two. "That sounded more like a question than a statement," said Patch. "Then ans-s-swer it." His rogue smile crept out. "It's hard to concentrate on answers with you looking like that." I glanced down at Patch's black shirt, wet and clinging to my body. I brushed past him and shut the bathroom door between us."

-- Becca Fitzpatrick

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“It was to Hofmeister, working as a young man, an amateur and enthusiast, in the early morning hours of summer months, before business, at Leipzig in the years before 1851, that the vision first appeared of a common type of Life-Cycle, running through Mosses and Ferns to Gymnosperms and Flowering Plants, linking the whole series in one scheme of reproduction and life-history.”

Source : Arthur Harry Church, Humphrey John Denham (1919). “Gossypium in Pre-Linnaean Literature”
“She looked at me, confused. â€œHe hardly knew me. My parents dated and got married before we knew what happened. Letâ€™s just say we were not brought into the loop on that decision.â€ â€œThatâ€™s weird. I wasnâ€™t brought into the loop with my parentsâ€™ marriage either.â€ â€œReally? How old were you?â€ â€œTwelve months.â€ She giggled. â€œI canâ€™t imagine why they didnâ€™t ask your opinion.”
“One of the fundamental demonstrations of our natural instinct to Bond with each other is a will to give. Rather than domination, our most basic urge is to reach out to another human being, even at a cost to ourselves. Giving to others-the urge to empathize, to be compassionate, and to help others altruistically-is not the exception to the rule, but our natural state of being. Our impulse to connect with each other has developed an automatic desire to do for others, even at personal cost. Altruism comes naturally to us. It is selfishness that is culturally conditioned and a sign of pathology.”
“Suppose that the organism is given the problem of determining the analysis of a stimulus at a certain level of representation- e.g., the problem of determining which sequence of words a given utterance encodes. Since, in the general case, transducer outputs underdetermine perceptual analyses, we can think of the solution of such problems as involving processes of nondemonstrative inference. In particular, we can think of each input system as a computational mechanism which projects and confirms a certain class of hyputheses on the basis of a certain body of data.”

Source : "Wittgenstein, Mind, and Meaning". Book by Meredith Williams, 2002 edition.
“The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.”
“The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.”
“It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved again. Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be. Somewhere, just as the platinum iridium meter guarantees the tape measure, a strict measure must exist for the art of this time and place.”

Source : Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”
“Whoever said men hit harder when women are around, is right. Word for word, we beat the love out of each other.”

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