"If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it."

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Source : The International Herald Tribune, May 24, 1989.

Art Buchwald

#Long Quotes #Enough Quotes #Members Quotes

“Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. Its not glam.”
“Managers are to information as alcoholics are to booze. They consume enormous amounts, constantly crave more, but have great difficulty in digesting their existing intake.”

Source : "Research in light of a dark tunnel". Audit AGB research. London, Spring 1973.
“I was a sick child, I was scared, and honestly speaking, I never thought about why I didn't tell anyone about my abuse. Abuse victims don't have all the answers, and I never thought it was abuse. My generation was totally different. Now a small child knows many things, much more than what we knew. When I understood it was not right, it was much later.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The destiny of man is to unite, not to divide.”
“I'm one year away from 70 and I've had a good run. I really believe I'm okay.”
“You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently.”
“We are here among you as seekers of refuge from our present-your future-a time of worldwide famine, exhausted fuel supplies, terminal poverty-the end of the capitalistic experiment. Once we came to understand the simpl...truth that earth's resources were limited, in fact soon to run out, the whole capitalistic illusion fell to pieces. Those of us who spoke this truth were denounced as heretics, as enemies of the prevailing economic faith. Like religious Dissenters of an earlier day...”
“The hardest part of art-making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done-over and over-and that means, among other things, finding a host of practices that are just plain useful.”

Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.61, Image Continuum Press

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