Debra Diamond, Curator

Posted On October 26, 2008

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“The shift to the cosmic, I don’t know if it happens anywhere else in India.” – Debra Diamond, Curator

Damian Abraham, front man for the punk band Fucked-Up

Posted On October 26, 2008

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“I could manage a band and tell them… what to do. The number one thing would be ‘Don’t give your band a swearword name.’” – Damian Abraham, front man for the punk band Fucked-Up

H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. – H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)

G.K. Chesterton, writer (1874-1936)

“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.” – G.K. Chesterton, writer (1874-1936)

Hal Borland, journalist (1900-1978)

You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. – Hal Borland, journalist (1900-1978)

Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction writer (1917-2008)

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. – Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction writer (1917-2008)

Warren Buffett, Investor, Author

“I don’t have a problem with guilt about money. The way I see it is that my money represents an enormous number of claim checks on society. It’s like I have these little pieces of paper that I can turn into consumption. If I wanted to, I could hire 10,000 people to do nothing but paint my picture every day for the rest of my life. And the GNP would go up. But the utility of the product would be zilch, and I would be keeping those 10,000 people from doing AIDS research, or teaching, or nursing. I don’t do that though. I don’t use very many of those claim checks. There’s nothing material I want very much. And I’m going to give virtually all of those claim checks to charity when my wife and I die.” – Warren Buffett, Investor, Author

“If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.” – Warren Buffett, Investor, Author

Liam O’Flaherty, Irish Author

“I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men’s bones.” – Liam O’Flaherty, Irish Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Author

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Author

Theodore Dreiser

Posted On October 25, 2008

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“Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.” – Theodore Dreiser

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