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“Nah," I said to myslef, crumpling up the note, "Non vale il pene".”
― The Sixteen Pleasures
― The Sixteen Pleasures
“Are Origami's pictures any good? Well, I asked the now regrettably dead painter Syd Solomon, a most agreeable neighbour on Long Island for many summertimes, how to tell a good picture from a bad one. He gave me the most satisfactory answer I ever expect to hear. He said, "Look at a million pictures, and you can never be mistaken."
I passed this on to my daughter Edith, a professional painter, and she too thought it was pretty good. She said she "could rollerskate through the Louvre, saying 'Yes, no, no, yes, no, yes,' and so on.”
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I passed this on to my daughter Edith, a professional painter, and she too thought it was pretty good. She said she "could rollerskate through the Louvre, saying 'Yes, no, no, yes, no, yes,' and so on.”
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“If you want your boomerang to come back, first you've got to throw it.”
― The Raw Shark Texts
― The Raw Shark Texts
“Already the dream was coming apart, its bright silk strands unwinding into nebulous emotions, little coloured clouds of feeling being dispersed by the movement of my waking-up mind. This is how it's always been with Light Bulb Fragment dreams; by the time I'm fully awake, they're gone.”
― The Raw Shark Texts
― The Raw Shark Texts
“How much of the person behind the camera can be seen in the works? Is one hidden behind them or on the contrary do they unveil you? I think they do. The narrator is the real main character.”
― Vivian
― Vivian
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