"Man Ray takes a lot of pressure off me. It's like having a third person in a conversation; one of you doesn't have to talk all the time."

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Source : Lisa Lyons, William Wegman, Kim Levin, Walker Art Center (1982). “Wegman's world: 5 December 1982 to 16 January 1983, Walker Art Center”

William Wegman

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“Life and business are rather simple after all-to make a success of either, you've got to hang on to the knack of putting yourself into the other person's place.”
“Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.”

Source : John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.119, Taylor & Francis
“When they say "Be yourself," which self do they mean?”
“For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.”
“Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!”

Source : Martha Ostenso (1929). “The Young May Moon”
“A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.”
“I sat. And I thought. And the more I thought, connecting the events in my life, the more my heart collapsed.”
“Capitalism has been fully restored in Yugoslavia, as is well-known, but this capitalism knows how to disguise. Yugoslavia portrays itself as a socialist state, but of a special kind, as the world has never seen it before! The Titoites even boast that their state has nothing in common with the first socialist state which emerged from the socialist October Revolution and which was founded by Lenin and Stalin on the basis of the scientific theory of Marx and Engels.”

Source : "Yugoslav "Self-Administration" - Capitalist Theory and Practice". "Directions of the Development of the Political System of Socialist Self-Administration", Institute of Marxist-Leninist studies of the Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Albania, Tirana, 1978.

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