"When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one.""

-- Emilio Ambasz

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“I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and the people can be trusted to behave decently if you will only let them alone.”
“The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.”
“The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions and when full acknowledgment of it would undermine the foundations of his intellectual worldview.”
“For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile.”
“Doing makeup was a way to create characters, only I got tired of doing it for other people.”
“I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.”
“Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.”

Source : Greg Egan (2010). “Distress”, p.154, Hachette UK
“Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a very diverse group and the result is always more interesting than something I could have done by myself.”

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