"I am haunted by humans."

-- Markus Zusak

“I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.”
“One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.”
“It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling â€” or new. The character itself of being startling, spectacular, or upsetting has become conventionalized, part of safe good taste.”

Source : Clement Greenberg (1969). “Avant-garde Attitudes: New Art in the Sixties”
“More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.”

Source : 'The Analysis of the Hunting Field' (1846) ch. 1
“Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament.”
“Climate change isn't just an environmental issue; it's a technology, water, food, energy, population issue. None of this happens in a vacuum.”

Source : "'Climate Change War' Is Not a Metaphor". Interview with Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. April 18, 2014.
“Hamilton had a complaint. "Why did you have to tell the cops I'm your boyfriend? That's gross, Amy. We're related!" Amy was disgusted. "We had a common ancestor, like, five hundred years ago. Besides, if they think we're together, we only have to come up with one story, and I can do all the talking." "Hey, I got an early acceptance to Notre Dame," Hamilton said defensively. "I can talk." "Of course you can," Amy soothed. "It's what you say that might get us into trouble.”
“I had a checklist in my mind of the things that make a biography practical. Is the source material centralized? Is it easy to find? Are there new primary sources that no one has ever had access to? Are all the sources in English? If they're not, are they in a language that you speak? And I realized that not only is Armstrong the most important figure of Jazz in the 20th Century, but he's a perfect subject for a biography for all of these reasons. I had always loved his music and I had been fascinated in him as a personality. And that's really the key to writing a biography.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

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