"It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function."

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Source : "Empire of Dreams". Book by Giannina Braschi, 1994.

Giannina Braschi

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“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”
“People who have only good experiences aren't very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they aren't very deep. It may seem a misfortune now, and it makes things difficult, but well--it's easy to feel all the happy, simple stuff. Not that happiness is necessarily simple. But I don't think you're going to have a life like that, and I think you'll be the better for it. The difficult thing is to not be overwhelmed by the bad patches. You must not let them defeat you. You must see them as a gift--a cruel gift, but a gift nonetheless.”
“the lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves”

Source : Lucille Clifton (1974). “An ordinary woman”
“When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.”
“It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.”
“All light is available light.”
“Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?”
“I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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