"Lavish thousands of dollars on your baby clothes, and after all the child is prettiest when every garment is laid aside. That becoming nakedness, at least, may adorn the chubby darling of the poorest home."

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Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1873). “Oldport Days”, p.218

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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“Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.”
“When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.”
“Why are we designed to see the world as supremely beautiful just as we're about to be snuffed? Do rabbits feel the same as the fox teeth bite down on their necks? Is it mercy?”
“And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe that Jesus was their promised Messiah.”
“Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.”
“Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.”

Source : Usenet article, 1994.
“The one thing I cannot stand is when I do interviews, when I interview people, and I listen to the tapes and I hear myself talking and sort of stumble and stammer, or I hear the horrible sound of my own voice, or God forbid I see myself on video, there is that complete revulsion with seeing how I occur in the world.”
“Seeing is not as simple as looking.”

Source : Clare Farrow, Joseph Kosuth (1994). “A Reinhardt, J Kosuth, F Gonzales-Torres - Symptoms of Interference - Art & Design Profile 34(Paper Only)”, John Wiley & Sons

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