"What is the crowning glory of your civilization... the symbol as clear a statement as the pyramids, the Parthenon, the cathedrals? What is this symbol? What is its name? Its name is Junk. Junk is the rusty, lovely, brilliant symbol of the dying years of your time. Junk is your ultimate landscape."

-- George Nelson

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“When I was a kid, we sat around the house. If I got bored, I'd have to figure out something to do.”
“Fashion and style is just that. Fashion and style. It's not brain surgery.”
“India must achieve the real goal?that is energy independence or an economy which will function well within total freedom from oil, gas or coal imports.”
“If we want to make meaning, we need to make art. Cook, write, draw, doodle, paint, scrapbook, take pictures, collage, knit, rebuild an engine, sculpt, dance, decorate, act, sing - it doesn't matter. As long as we're creating, we're cultivating meaning.”
“Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention to misguided advice of that sort. If you do, you will very likely starve trying to live on your writing income. Besides, the only writers who survive the ages are those who understand the need for action in a novel.”
“Let water wash our bodies clean, and love wash our souls.”
“Satisfaction, I have the right tactics... And if you need em I got crazy prophylactics.”

Source : "Song: "Bonita Applebum" ("People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm")". 1990.
“Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.”

Source : 'Not Waving but Drowning' (1957)

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