"So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture."

-- Thom Mayne

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“Whatever happens to us originates in the mind.”
“So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.”

Source : Song: Ode to Divorce, Album: Soviet Kitsch, 2004
“I despair at the rise of modern violence. I truly give in to despair at times, that deep, futureless pit of despair.... I watch the American slaughterhouse, the casual attacks on popes, presidents, and uncounted others, and I wonder if there are many more out there with the Ability or if butchery has simply become the modern way of life.”
“In another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist.Â There's no evidence for it.”
“Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.”
“Big Brother is not the only danger facing the country. Another is the rising tide of distrust, the corrosive spread of cynicism, the fraying of the social fabric and the rise of people who are so individualistic in their outlook that they have no real understanding of how to knit others together and look after the common good.”
“Where is the angry machine of all of us? Why is God such a blurred magician? Why are you begging for your life if you believe those things? Prove to me that youâ€™re better than the rabbits we ate last night.”
“I prefer to rely on my memory. I have lived with that memory a long time, I am used to it, and if I have rearranged or distorted anything, surely that was done for my own benefit.”

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