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For Guy Davenport--whom he told me John Barth once called the last modernist--modernism is 'a renaissance of the archaic'.
— Lance Olsen
My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.
— Junot Diaz
Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Medication without explanation is obscene.
— Toni Cade Bambara
Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
History! Read it and weep!
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
If you can't find anybody else, then I'll go. So, they couldn't find anybody else. So, I went.
— Victoria Gray Adams
Really good mountain bikers are lousy judges of trail difficulty. We haven't a clue, we just ride.
— John Olsen
We were too tired to help. Above 8,000 meters is not a place where people can afford morality
— Jon Krakauer
It's always nice to anticipate working in something that you know people will have an appetite for.
— Harrison Ford
It's a European art form, and you're used to seeing a certain type of person as a ballerina. And I don't look like a lot of the girls around me.
— Misty Copeland
Don't ever let anyone convince you that your imagination is wrong.
— Giuseppe Bianco
Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.
— John Olsen
Art is not so much talent as character ... it's what you are, the qualities of the person.
— John Olsen
I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together.
— John Olsen
How about I introduce you to my favorite guilty pleasure?" He gasps and looks offended. "I thought that was me.
— Eve Jagger
What matters is the imaginative truth.
— Edna O'Brien