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We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species. We all know that the ordinary, everyday stories of individuals are riches, more humane, and much more joyful. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#art #individuality #life #museums #art

I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#best #blues #buildings #i #point

I understand, gentlemen,” John Kennedy said. “If you find that life it’s not easy, let me tell you, death is worse. ↗

— Pierre Marshesso

#thriller #death

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings. ↗

— Horace

#death

Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be aware and be concerned of the inequity in rights. ↗

— Carson Kressley

#age #aware #color #concerned #different

..and how sometimes when she can’t get her clients talking about what happened over there she’ll get a map of the country, an appropriate map for their world, and pinpoint where they last lived, where their family went missing. Sometimes they would be reluctant to talk, but when they saw the map they would point to a place and say, “There. My village,” and that’s how their dialogue would begin. With a sense of place. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#georgie #sense-of-place #family

Are you sure you don’t have a crazy hairy grandmother in your family? ↗

— Vivi Anna

#erotica #vivi-anna #family

I experienced a lot, and achieved nearly everything I wanted. I can enjoy that today. Go to bed at nine in the evening, because my child wakes up around seven, without having the feeling that I missed or are missing something. ↗

— Thomas Kretschmann

#around #because #bed #child #enjoy

Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today. ↗

— Arthur Kroker

#black #black hole #body #disappearing #edge

I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits. ↗

— Kristin Kreuk

#did #growing #growing up #gymnastics #i