"For me, the main point is that reality is rich. We can respond to it more immediately and directly, in ways where there's less displacement between representation and reality."

-- Thom Andersen

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“From MARS Volume 3 by Fuyumi Soryo: Kira: â€œWhy do you go through all that just to race? I guess asking that is the same thing as asking why I drawâ€¦.probably because Iâ€™m aliveâ€¦.thatâ€™s all there is to it. I sense colors in you. Theyâ€™re strong and beautifulâ€¦.and sad. I wondered what your colors were for a long time. Theyâ€™re the colors of the sunsetâ€¦the blazing shades of a sunset that burn just before the darkness sets in. You said it was nothing, but thereâ€™s no one as alive as you.”
“On hitting a shaken opponent - His legs turned to spaghetti and I was all over him like the sauce.”
“For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.”
“You don't understand,' she said, and there was a puzzling trace of resentment in her voice. 'Children never do. The love a parent has for a child, there's nothing else like it. No other love so consuming.”
“Every tear from every eyeBecomes a babe in eternity.”
“Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of childhood, the dangerous passions of adults, into her own honey-dusk 'voodun': protective, purified to gold. Poetry is always a time machine: here we are invisible travelers to a bewitched past, a beautifully occluded future. These poems are erotic, vertiginous, revelatory, their dazzling lyric force reflecting profound hermetic life.”
“I can't ask for more out of life, and the more I learn, the less I know.”

Source : Tony Bennett (2012). “The Good Life: The Autobiography Of Tony Bennett”, Simon and Schuster
“To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. Design is how you treat your customers. If you treat them well from an environmental, emotional, and aesthetic standpoint, you're probably doing good design.”

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