Quote of the Day
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Hate speech and freedom of speech: two different things.
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“The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else
can one do if one needs to express one’s feeling precisely?”
by Robert Motherwell
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“No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.”
Night Windows by Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967)
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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
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“What we are looking at on all our TV sets is a man who finally, after 24 years of frenzied effort, became the President of the United States with a personal salary of $200,000 a year and an unlimited expense account including a fleet of private helicopters, jetliners, armored cars, personal mansions and estates on both coasts and control over a budget beyond the wildest dream of King Midas … and all the dumb bastard can show us, after five years of total freedom to do anything he wants with all this power, is a shattered national economy, disastrous defeat in a war we could have ended four years ago on far better terms than he finally came around to, and a hand-picked personal staff put together through five years of screening, whose collective criminal record will blow the minds of high-school American History students for the next 100 years.”
Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005)
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“no art was ever less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and of the study of the great masters; of inspiration, spontaneity, temperament, I know nothing.”
The Dance Class (La Classe de Danse), 1873–1876, oil on canvas, by Edgar Degas
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You want to remember that while you’re judging the book, the book is also judging you.