"Much is missed if we have eyes only for the bright colors. Nature should be viewed without distinction... She makes no choice herself; everything that happens has equal significance. Nothing can be dispensed with. This is a common mistake that many people make: They think that half of nature can be destroyed - the uncomfortable half - while still retaining the acceptable and the pleasing side."

-- Eliot Porter

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“You shouldn't wallow in self-pity. But it's OK to put your feet in it and swish them around a little.”
“I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.”
“For me, as a music fan, visuals kind of steal away the purity of the song. My instinct is not to provide a visual to go with a piece of music. But here's MTV. It's really powerful.”
“There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.”
“Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.”
“... being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice.”
“There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.”
“I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.”

Source : Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker

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