"Public space can be a lot better with some private space to contradict it and vice versa. It keeps the system alive. If the system is just one thing, then it's closed and it eventually dies."

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Vito Acconci

“Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to me a lot, actually - the melancholy of the situation becomes more front and center.”

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“Tattoo is the magic word. It hits people in a way that no other visual medium does. And it is not simply visual, but visceral. Everybody has an opinion about it and everybody has a gut reaction. And because they are permanent, tattoos raise all these issues about life and death.”
“Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.”
“Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.”
“Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there was an equal hush. Between the real landscape and its shadow in the water, there was no division; both were so untroubled and clear, and, while so fraught with solemn mystery of life and death, so hopefully reassuring to the gazer's soothed heart, because so tenderly and mercifully beautiful.”
“people who say its a long story, mean it's a stupid short one that they are too embarrassed and couldn't be bothered to tell”
“In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.”
“Just because they say they're praying for you in your face, doesn't mean they aren't laughing at your struggle behind your back.”

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