"Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself."

-- Stephen Sondheim

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“The Chicago Cubs are like Rush Street-a lot of singles, but no action.”
“It is suggested that all written works, including this one, have dangerous implications to the vitality of an oral tradition and to the health of a civilization, particularly if they thwart the interest of a people in culture, and following Aristotle , the cathartic effects of culture. "It is written but I say unto you" is a powerful directive to Western civilization.”

Source : "Empire and Communications". Book by Harold Innis, pp. 19-20, 2007.
“Forty freaked me out. I didn't see it coming. My life was in a state of chaos - I was moving jobs and moving house - and it just hit me like a ton of bricks.”
“Attachment is your biggest strength and your biggest weakness. Though it gives you the power to love someone more than yourself, it becomes difficult to live when you lose something you are attached to. Even when we have lost, we should go beyond that and get truly attached to someone. Loving someone truly is the most beautiful feeling.”
“art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.”

Source : Dore Ashton (1976). “A Critical Study of Philip Guston”, p.1, Univ of California Press
“In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think.”
“What do you think, I was born at 60?”
“A nation of intellectuals, a nation of thugs/Jesus is hate, a nation of Satan is love!”

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