"I don't believe too much in originality... you learn art from other art and then looking into somebody's face or landscape is the point of departure to do your work of art."

-- Paterson Ewen

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“I suggest that a culture adopting an alphabet would denigrate right hemispheric values because the alphabet is a left hemispheric mode of reception. And this right hemispheric denigration would manifest in two principal ways: Women's rights would be taken away, and images would be declared abominations.”
“For me, Twitter is a public persona. It's UbuWeb or Kenneth Goldsmith (as opposed to Kenny Goldsmith). I don't interact. It's a lousy form for conversation and opinion (what can you really say in 140 characters?), but a wonderful propaganda and sloganeering tool. I use it as a one-way street.”

Source : "What Would Twitter Do?". Interview with Sheila Heti, believermagblog.wordpress.com. August 15, 2014.
“The thing to me that's fun is trying to make the characters seem believable, or realistic. And it's especially challenging when you're doing fantasy stories, when you're doing superhero types of things.”
“Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.”
“If only I could throw away the urge to trace my patterns in your heart, I could really see you.”

Source : "Zen in the Art of Helping". Book by David Brandon, 1976.
“Of course, I loved the Spice Girls. I loved Geri and Baby, but who liked Posh Spice? They said I looked like her, and I said: 'That's not cool, that's really mean.'”
“Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there's absolutely nothing else to do.”

Source : Richard Condon (2005). “The Manchurian Candidate”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated
“For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions”

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