"Make things that carry with them the residue of where they have been."

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Dennis Oppenheim

#Has Beens Quotes

“I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say, to hold interest. No matter how worthy the message of something, if it's dull, you're just not communicating.”
“It was all very well being told that she could do nothing to make things better. Neverfell did not have the kind of mind that could take that quietly. She did not have the kind of mind that could be quiet at all.”

Source : Frances Hardinge (2012). “A Face Like Glass”, p.42, Pan Macmillan
“There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose.”
“Love is the garment of knowledge.”
“The indications are that swearing preceded the development of cursing. That is, expletives, maledictions, exclamations, and imprecations of the immediately explosive or vituperative kind preceded the speechmaking and later rituals involved in the deliberate apportioning of the fate of an enemy. Swearing of the former variety is from the lips only, but the latter is from the heart. Damn it! is not that same as Damn you!”
“Being a man with a conscience I simply felt that I had to do something - anything! - about the world we live in.”

Source : Source: heathenharvest.org
“The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time.”

Source : Max Horkheimer (1972). “Critical Theory: Selected Essays”, p.133, A&C Black
“I'm less interested in how we label ourselves. I'm more interested in how we treat each other. And if we're treating each other right, then I can be African-American, I can be multi-racial, I can be you name it, what matters is, am I showing people respect, am I caring for one, for other people.”

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