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  There are years that ask questions and years that answer them.
—Zora Neale Hurston
These are the times. We are the people. And we are living in the answering years.
—Jean Huston
 

American imagination demands the real thing and, to attain it, must fabricate the absolute fake.
—Umberto Eco

 

You are never closer to change than when life is unbearable in the smallest of things.
—Rainer Maria Rilke

  A lot of people try to think up ideas. I’m not one. I’d rather accept the irresistible possibilities of what I can’t ignore.
—Robert Rauschenberg
  One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
—André Gide
  The universe is not composed of atoms, but of stories.
—Muriel Ruykeyser
  The dead have become ever more distinct for me as the voices of the Unanswered, Unresolved, and Unredeemed.
—Carl Jung
  You have to be rather stupid to be an artist—stubborn, and want nothing else.
—Paul Auster