"When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much ridicule that you would never forget it? With his morbid dream of primitive and rustic life, with his nostalgia for Homeric cheeses and legendary wool-spinners, with his hatred for the machine, steam power, and electricity, that maniac of antique simplicity is like a man who, after having reached full physical maturity, still wants to sleep in his cradle and feed himself at the breast of his decrepit old nurse in order to recover his thoughtless infancy."

Source : "Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America" by Anthony L. Geist, Jose B. Monle-N, Taylor & Francis, (p. 57), 1999.

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

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“You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.”

Source : "An Old Friend Writes of Rayburn". U.S. News & World Report, (p. 72), October 23, 1961.
“It takes a checkbook to change the world”
“Basketball was always my first love, but once I had a good year as a senior, I figured the next step was to play college football.”
“You know, some people say that Cannes is the worst place in the world to see cinema. It's a paradox. They have the new films , lots of interesting films premiering there for the first time. At the same time it's such a mess and a confusion. You have to run from one screening to another.”
“The soft bigotry of low expectations”
“I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least.”

Source : Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 2, 2010.
“It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.”

Source : Dashiell Hammett (2002). “Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921-1960”, Counterpoint Press
“Between the ages of 30 and 40 was the time when both my spirit and body were young and powerful and I could do anything!”

Source : Source: www.elle.com

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