"Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes."

-- John Hench

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“The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art.”

Source : Harold Rosenberg (1983). “Art on the Edge: Creators and Situations”, p.283, University of Chicago Press
“Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth is himself a devil and the thing elevated is a work of evil magic.”

Source : "The Visitor". Book by Sheri S. Tepper, 2002.
“Among the numerous pleasures of Vienna the hotel evenings are famous. During supper Strauss or Lanner play waltzes...After every waltz they get huge applause; and if they play a Quodlibet, or jumble of opera, song and dance, the hearers are so overjoyed that they don't know what to do with themselves. It shows the corrupt taste of the Viennese public.”
“Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.”

Source : Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2012). “Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying”, p.14, Anchor
“Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.”
“The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.”
“I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.”
“... to be afraid is in a way to be hopeful, because to be afraid means that you haven't given up. You know it doesn't help, but you keep thrashing. The monster has you pinned to the wall, but you're not ready to say, 'Oh, hell, eat me.”

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