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| | The most beautiful makeup for a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy
—Yves Saint Laurent |
| | Like many people today, Mansfield is reacting against the lack of sensuality in the cyberworld, that placeless, timeless locus where we spend so many hours staring at electronic blips we can’t smell, hear, touch, taste or move among.
—Robert Cambell about Howard Mansfield |
| | Popular culture used to draw people to what they liked. Internet culture draws people to what everyone else likes.
—Lee Siegal |
| | Attention is the primary currency of the consciousness. It’s more valuable than money and can't be saved in a bank.
—Radical Mutual Improvement |
| | The act of metaphor is a thrust at truth and a lie, depending on where you are.
—Thomas Pynchon |
| | As you grow older, and are pushed to the margin, you begin to realize that everything is not about you, and that is the beginning of freedom.
—Germaine Greer |
| | Your whole life must be one of longing.
—The Cloud of Unknowing |
| | I have no time to cultivate doubts. I do not want to be self-critical. I do know I will be injured. I will be killed but I want to work. I want to give! I want do do this in a rush, I do not want to complain!
—Thomas Hirschhorn |
| | All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.
—Friedrich Nietzsche |
| | The poet's work is not to flood darkness with light so that darkness is destroyed, but to enter into darkness, mystery, so that it is experienced.
—Denise Levertov |
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