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“When you’re an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand. And you feel stupid doing it.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“There's really no honor in proving that you can carry the entire load on your own shoulders. And...it's lonely”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“Complaining about the universe’s unfairness is never part of a successful strategy.”
― Amanda Palmer, Neil Gaiman Cory Doctorow, Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age

“The destruction of sight, wherever the injuries be sustained, follows
the same law: all colors are affected in the first place,and lose their
saturation. Then the spectrum is simplified, being reduced to four and
soon to two colors; finally a grey monochrome stage is reached,
although the pathological color is never identifiable with any normal
one. Thus in central as in peripheral lesions ‘the loss of nervous substance results not only in a deficiency of certain qualities, but in the
change to a less differentiated and more primitive structure’.”
― Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception