"I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate."

-- Nancy Astor

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“We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.”
“A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.”
“I had no contact with my contemporaries in the photographic field, nor even knowledge of their work. So I was influenced by no-one and there were no short cuts for me. I was self-taught the hard way, by trial and error.”
“There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.”
“Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed-chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got of their bark hides.”
“I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.”

Source : "This week in fiction:Ben Marcus" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. May 11, 2013.
“Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon â€“ it is the very heart of painting. Repeated experiments with adjacent colors will show that any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.”
“Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”

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