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Hollywood, it has treated me so nicely, I am ready to faint! As soon as I see Hollywood, I love it. ↗

— Carmen Miranda

#faint #hollywood #i #i am #i love

The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke. ↗

— Octave Mirbeau

#danger #explosion #greatest #greatest danger #provoke

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#creativity #writing #art

Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#admittedly #claim #great #grounds #highest

I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness. ↗

— Joan Miro

#character #even #feel #give #greater

It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to sleep in the afternoon without having to endure centuries of murder and enslavement. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#imagination

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#toronto #toronto-literature #imagination

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative. ↗

— Adrian Mitchell

#different #first #more #performance #poetry

The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#attainment #economic #man #peace #presupposes

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth. ↗

— Yukio Mishima

#astronomical #become #entire #flower #foundation