"Where did the love come from? What was it made of?"

-- Cornelia Funke

“We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.”
“Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new spatial configuration.”
“Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.”

Source : Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company
“For those who need a name, there's a gift basket of medical terms. All I know is cutting made me feel safe. It was proof. Thoughts and words, captured where I could see them and track them. The truth, stinging, on my skin, in a freakish shorthand. Tell me you're going to the doctor, and I'll want to cut worrisome on my arm. Say you've fallen in love and I buzz the outlines of tragic over my breast. I hadn't necessarily wanted to be cured.”
“Essentially what photography is is life lit up.”
“Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.”
“Every day is beautiful when you're holding hands with your best friend.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dave Willis from Mar 10, 2017
“The NBA needs more of that 'it's-about-us-against-them' mentality.”

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