"[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time."

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Gertrude Atherton

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“The idea of photography as evidence is pure bullshit. A photo is no more proof of any reality than what you may hear being said by someone in a bus. We only record details, small fragments of the world.”
“Everyone is so different. I sometimes wish I wrote in a different way. You know, that feeling of: So-and-so writes slowly, if only I wrote slowly.”
“The adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.”

Source : "The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race" by Jared Diamond, discovermagazine.com. May 01, 1999.
“One is always willfully absurd.... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot.”

Source : Galen Beckett (2010). “The House on Durrow Street”, p.206, Spectra
“Music changes, but there's a timeless touch that we put to it, which I think is really important.”

Source : Source: www.cbn.com
“We disjoint the mind like the body.”
“It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have.”

Source : Jesse Ball (2014). “Silence Once Begun: A Novel”, p.216, Vintage
“O God... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand.”

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