"Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement."

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Source : Dave Hickey (2012). “The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded”, p.30, University of Chicago Press

Dave Hickey

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“As time goes on we become old, the future contracts, the past expands...But by future we don't just mean the years ahead; we always mean as well the plenitude of possibilities which challenge our creativity...In confrontation with the future we can become young if we accept the future's challenges.”
“Fix me up with a mannequin, just remember I like blondes. I'll be the life of the party, even when I'm dead and gone.”

Source : Song: Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox, Album: Honky Tonk Attitude
“To climb ever closer to God is not to move away from our troubled and troubling neighbors, but closer to them.”

Source : Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (2010). “The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture”, p.38, Paraclete Press
“My wife looks at the person Park Jae Sang and the singer who goes up on stage, Psy, as different people.”
“The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment. And perhaps even more than that, it's having the ability to recall such moments in their totality, to contemplate them like jewels.”
“There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she's given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the rest of her life with him is going to take.”

Source : A.S.A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife”, p.117, Hachette UK
“I am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.”
“This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles.”

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