"My will exceeds my talents."

-- Edvard Munch

“My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real and Ideal and sacrificing nothing of the Truth by all possible devotion to Poetry and beauty.”

Source : Julia Margaret Cameron, J. Paul Getty Museum (1996). “Julia Margaret Cameron: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.6, Getty Publications
“Coming out's the hardest part, when you're Queen Elvis.”

Source : Song: Queen Elvis II, Album: Eye
“The heart sags. My footprints forget me. I donâ€™t think anything will ever be the same. This is the edge of the cliff and you canâ€™t move, canâ€™t jump. Everything is vertical. With binoculars you can see where youâ€™ll be in an hour. Raindrops collect on the lens. A fine mist. It hides us. It drifts into clocks. Gravity presses your hands. Some hurts never get said. Some get smuggled.”
“The animals you say were 'sent' for man's free use and nutriment. Pray, then, inform me, and be candid, why came they aeons before man did, to spend long centuries on earth. Awaiting their devourer's birth? Those ill-timed chattels, sent from heaven, were, sure, the maddest gift e'er given - 'sent' for man's use (can man believe it?) when there was no man to receive it!”

Source : "Seventy Years Among Savages". Book by Henry Stephens Salt, 1921.
“So people have to decide. Do they want to have the security? Do they want to continue to plug the gap [in border security] that GAO has identified and recognize that there will be some costs to doing that? Or do we want to make sure that business isn't hampered and that people can move back and forth readily, and recognize that, if we don't put some barriers in place, we're going to wind up with dangerous people coming into the country?”
“There's only so much you can do with an attorney on a show that's about New York policemen.”
“The shadows cannot speak.”
“Plato, the first true pope of philosophy (sorry, Socrates), argued for a World of Forms above the reality-a transcendent plane of perfect essences, pure and lovely, where nothing ever gets muddy (including the essence of mud.)”

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