"Money is like a mirror to our culture. What we see tells us who we are."

-- Jacob Needleman

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“[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.”
“Believe it or not, I've got a really bad metabolism. One burger and I'm done. I'm not a guy that puts away 10 burgers.”
“There is a good deal of art that in some traditions of conceptual work are anti-affect, in fact a very large chunk of mainstream art after 1950 took against affect art altogether because they said, "No, we hate affect art because this is how we get manipulated by totalitarianism and therefore artists shouldn't play that game." And a lot of artists agreed to play that game, which I personally believe is to the loss of art.”

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“I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.”
“I enjoy twitter accounts that are meticulously edited just as much as I enjoy twitter accounts that aren't edited at all, but it can feel kind of disappointing to me when I see that someone is editing their tweets out of self-consciousness.”

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“I am too busy with my cause to hate too absorbed in something bigger than myself. I have no time to quarrel, no time for regrets and no man can force me to stoop low enough to hate him.”
“I just feel like I understand Cameron Diaz better than I ever have before, and I donâ€™t like it. I donâ€™t like to see everything I see. Itâ€™s like a magnifying mirror only soulful, and Iâ€™m not looking at her, Iâ€™m looking at us, you know? And our pores are huge.”
“History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy.”

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