"My parents, who were Communists, always pretended to be American patriots. You can always convince yourself you are: 'I love America, I just want it to be perfect, which it will be when it becomes a Soviet Communist state'. When the left called for 'liberation' what it really wanted was to erase the human slate and begin again. Like everybody else, I see things that need to be improved. I just am mindful of the fact that they can be made a lot worse."

-- David Horowitz

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“My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.”

Source : Constance W. Glenn, Jim Dine, Christopher Sweet (1985). “Jim Dine: drawings”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated
“Each arrow you shoot off carries its own target into the decidedly secret tangle”

Source : Paul. Celan (2011). “Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan”, p.59, Wesleyan University Press
“Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained. Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.”
“How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single herb or tree.”
“This is also why it is wrong to treat God as a grand employment agency, a celestial executive searcher to find perfect fits for our perfect gifts.Â The truth is not that God is finding a place for our gifts but that God has created us and our gifts for a place of his choosing â€“ and we will only be ourselves when we are finally there.”
“No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society”
“Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.”
“Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.”

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