"In 1983, I set up Caxton Corp. Its been an interesting and happy ride since."

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Bruce Kovner

#Interesting Quotes

“I felt proud of them and happy for them as friends. But then I was, not jealous in a bad way, but I just was wishing I had been there ... It did take me a while to accept that reality, but that's over with now.”
“...it is in the nature of original contemporary art to present itself as a bad risk. And we the public...should be proud of being in this predicament, because nothing else would seem to us quite true to life; and art, after all, is supposed to be a mirror of life.”
“Please understand what the IRS scandal is about: Using the government to shut down opponents”
“You cannot just have a socialist revolution in Norwood and nowhere else.”
“I learned the tricks... If you want to do academic things, you can do them. It is not difficult. Yet it is from this difficulty - the mistakes and dead ends - that artists develop, not through the quick solutions and not from something you learn and apply.”
“I know it's hard to let go of people that have been with you forever. Sometimes it's time to call it a day.”
“I painted sets before I ever performed.”

Source : Interview with Scott Dikkers, www.avclub.com. February 26, 1997.
“Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.”

Source : David Lehman (1992). “Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man”, Poseidon Pr

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