"[Postmodern photography] implies the exhaustion of the image universe: it suggests that a photographer can find more than enough images already existing in the world without the bother of making new ones."

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Source : Andy Grundberg (1990). “Crisis of the real: writings on photography, 1974-1989”

Andy Grundberg

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“Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.”

Source : Mario Cuomo (2012). “Reason to Believe”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
“The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately”
“You know the one with the big ears? Wait a minute, he ain't my president, he might be yours, he ain't my president. You know that woman he had singing for him, singing my song - she's gonna get her a- whipped. The great BeyoncÃ© But I can't stand BeyoncÃ©. She has no business up there, singing up there on a big ol' president day singing my song that I've been singing forever.”
“It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her temperance work, her demand for personal rights, for political equality, for religious freedom and every step of kindred character has met with opposition from the church as a body and from the clergy as exponents of its views.”
“He [Timbaland] meshes well with a lot of great people, like he meshes well with Timberlake, Missy Elliott, Nelly Furtado. I'm hoping I'm another one that he meshes well with, because it could be really genius.”
“I literally remember when I made my audition tape for 'Buffy'. I went to the Arsenal Mall. I got my outfit at Contempo Casuals in the Arsenal Mall and put some safety pins in my jeans. I remember telling whoever the clerk was that I was making a tape for 'Buffy', and they were so excited.”
“Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.”

Source : George Saintsbury (1934). “A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day”
“Everybody knew that being dead could put you in a terrible mood.”

Source : Luis Alberto Urrea (2006). “The Hummingbird's Daughter: A Novel”, p.8, Hachette UK

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