"I'm so drawn to the frontier mentality and that idea of having to figure everything out from scratch."

-- Andrea Zittel

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“True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.”

Source : Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1803). “The works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: including her correspondence, poems, and essays”, p.183
“When I write songs, I try to remove myself a little bit. Obviously they're very personal to me, but it feels easier if I feel like I'm writing characters.”
“If people thought more, we'd all have less to amuse us.”

Source : "Ask Amy" with Amy Dickinson, tucson.com. May 10, 2014.
“I've got to worry about Alonzo Mourning, because a year or two ago there was a chance that Alonzo Mourning wouldn't be standing here talking to you. That's the cold reality of it.”
“Yale Law School was the kind of place you went if you felt you needed to go to law school, maybe, for your resume, but you really didn't want to practice law. You wanted to do public policy, or maybe go into politics.”
“Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is hardly ever written about by writers or intellectuals; modern philosophers do not speak of it directly; the majority of scientists deny it could possibly be there at all. It plays no part in popular culture: no one sings about it, no one talks about it in plays, and it's not on TV. We are actually educated into believing that nothing is real beyond what we can perceive with our ordinary senses.”
“Well, does he still have his fingernails? Making inquiries while negotiating the release of a US Army pilot from North Korea, in Time.”
“Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.”

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