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The bogus religiosity which now surrounds original works of art, and which is ultimately dependent upon their market value, has become the substitute for what paintings lost when the camera made them reproducible. Its function is nostalgic.
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“Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.”
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“Today we know more about Jupiter than the guy who lives next door to us. We can predict where an election will go, we can turn a gene on or off, and we can even send a robot to Mars, but we are lost if asked to explain or predict the phenomena we might expect to know the most about, the actions of our fellow humans.”
― Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do
― Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do
“A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.”
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