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“A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.”
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“Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.”
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“I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.”
Source : A. Lee Martinez (2007). “In the Company of Ogres”, p.133, Macmillan
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“Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is”
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“Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.”
Source : "Satires". Book by Juvenal, edited by A. E. Housman, p. XI, 1931.
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“His ignorance is encyclopedic.”
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“This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.”
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“As there is no darkness in the moonlight. So is Mustafa (Muhammad), the well wisher, bright.”
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“My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.”
Source : Ad Reinhardt (1975). “Art-as-art: the selected writings of Ad Reinhardt”, Viking Adult
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“Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.”
