"A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success."

-- Robert Musil

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“One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great deal of personal interviewing and corresponding, among other things, which allows me a lot more time for painting.”
“The screen is a window through which one sees a virtual world. The challenge is to make that world look real, act real, sound real, feel real.”
“I'm happy with the people that I have around me. And they've been friends of mine since I was young, for a very long time.”
“Life is funny isnâ€™t it? Just when you think youâ€™ve got it all figured out, just when you finally begin to plan something, get excited about something, and feel like you know what direction youâ€™re heading in, the paths change, the signs change, the wind blows the other way, north is suddenly south, and east is west, and youâ€™re lost. It is so easy to lose your way, to lose direction. And thatâ€™s with following all the signposts”
“In the past, heartland whites with some kind of dream or desire left their towns for cities to become citified. They wanted to get away from religion, from their families, they wanted to come out, make art, have sex, have experiences. But this new crew was something we had never seen before. They were the first generation of suburban Americans. They came, not to be citified, but rather to change cities into places they could recognize and dominate.”
“When one makes sculptures of horses, one remembers all of that great relationship that humans had with them.....Even today one raises horses only for dressage, the races, for the pleasure of horseback riding. It has become an animal of romance, an animal of pleasure which has lost its utility in the West.”
“Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.”
“There is something great and terrible about suicide.”

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