"Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence."

-- Frederick Lenz

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“You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.”

Source : Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.69, D & M Publishers
“I am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered, for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people, there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us.”
“The borrowers will always be willing to take a great deal for themselves. Itâ€™s up to the lenders to show restraint, and when they lose it, watch out.”

Source : "Essential reading for science writers: The Big Short by Michael Lewis" by Mark Henderson, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2012.
“In my theater pieces, I would do "Tits on the Head" - Polaroid photos for $10 on the stage. There would be a line of folks paying me $10 for their turn. It was public prostitution. I turned my whole audience into johns. But because it was in a theater context, an art context, it was socially acceptable.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves.”
“I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.”
“We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar.”
“I was a very hard-edged geometric painter, strongly influenced by [Piet] Mondrian and [Theo] van Doesburg and that sort of thing.”

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