"The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again."

-- Anais Nin

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“The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who perform great feats before friendly crowds. Greatness in major league sports is the ability to win in a stadium filled with people who are pulling for you to lose.”
“We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all the old roots. The old men have no roots. They don't know it. They just go on talking and flailing away and falling down on the young with their tons of dead weight and their power. For the power is still there, in their life-in-death. But the roots are dead, and the land is poisoned for miles around them.”

Source : Josephine Winslow Johnson (1996). “The Inland Island”, Writer's Digest Books
“I did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself was wise, as was Dada's.”
“Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.”
“Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.”
“Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.”
“Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.”

Source : Van Wyck Brooks (1944). “Literature in New England: The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865. New England: Indian Summer, 1865-1915”, New York Garden City [1944]
“Sometimes we don't know what's best until we're forced into it. Often you can be just as happy or even happier with less.”

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