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| | A long and successful life is about knowing what you don’t want to do as much as knowing what you do want to do.
—Jane Smiley |
| | Performing two Google searches generates the same amount of CO2 as boiling a kettle water for a cup of tea
—Alex Wissner-Gross |
| | You want to free the world, humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that it is in language where the other parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates.
—Harold Pinter |
| | If I were forced to spend eternity with any group of intellectuals, I’d rather spend it with Erasmus, Rabelais and Montaigne than with Descartes, Leibnitz and Newton.
—Stephan Toulmin |
| | You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
—Samuel Beckett |
| | Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
—Adrienne Rich |
| | The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
—John Kenneth Galbraith |
| | The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L P Hartley |
| | I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to
the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the "yes." I have a white
background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.
—Richard Avedon |
| | You must work hard, but don’t flaunt it. Things must appear to be casual.
—Karl Lagerfeld |
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