"After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene."

-- Jacques Barzun

#Men Quotes #Europe Quotes #Circles Quotes

“I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad question to ask oneself.”
“It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.”
“I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.”
“You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end.”
“Being codependent means that when you die, someone else's life passes before your eyes.”
“The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.”

Source : 'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 6 (10 December 1774)
“Women are asking what privileges their own breadwinning buys.”
“I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty. I could have just as easily picked up a knife or a gun, like many of my childhood friends did... most of whom were murdered or put in prison... but I chose not to go that way. I felt that I could somehow subdue these evils by doing something beautiful that people recognize me by, and thus make a whole different life for myself, which has proved to be so.”

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