"Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist Church."

-- Dave Hickey

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“I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual,' but bi-curious? Yea.”
“As a journalist, I never isolated myself. I was a journalist at a daily newspaper and every day I went out on the street. Every day I had contact with people. I interviewed the most important writers of the twentieth century, and into the twenty-first century, from Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Duras, and Marguerite Yourcenar to Christa Wolf.”
“A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes.”
“Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.”

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“I dieted all the time in the Sixties, but we had no idea what dieting meant - we thought it meant not eating anything.”
“In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ. The second kind of observer is the extreme reductionist who is so busy stripping things apart that the tremendous mystery has been reduced to a trifle, to intangibles not worth troubling one's head about.”
“When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.”
“All human beings are entrepreneurs. When we were in the caves we were all self-employed . . . finding our food, feeding ourselves. Thatâ€™s where human history began . . . As civilization came we suppressed it. We became labor because they stamped us, â€˜You are labor.â€™ We forgot that we are entrepreneurs.”

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