"Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them."

-- Karl Kraus

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“Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered.”
“Bankers were scapegoats for the whole Reagan-Thatcher era, which exalted finance and humbled industry, and which had allowed the fruits of progress to accrue disproportionately to the rich and super-rich.”
“Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which I see as a process that's never-ending.”

Source : "A door to freedom" by Chris Ofili, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2009.
“Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.”
“The Bible consistently denies free will.”
“Eloquence may set fire to reason.”

Source : "Gitlow v. People of New York, 268 U.S. 652". Judicial opinion, 1925.
“What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason. ... I wrote some of my best love songs ever when I was unhappy and my saddest love songs when I was very much in love. When I wrote 'You're in My Heart', which is an uplifting song, I had just broken up with-Now who had I broken up with?. ... Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.”
“My younger brother is an architect, my son and his wife are both architects, they work for me, and so I guess I've started a dynasty.”

Source : Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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