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I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that. ↗

— Matthew Barney

#anything #consumer #desire #digestive #driven

Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way. ↗

— Matthew Barney

#characters #everything #gravitate #heavy #i

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#attributes #comes #elation #halo #her

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#delays #first #love #love at first sight #second

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#our #shed #tears #time

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#into #keep #likely #mind #much

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#float #formless #intangible #interpreters #lack

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#old #question #years #young #youth

As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made. ↗

— Richard Barnfield

#fell #grove #made #may #merry

I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he ever took out who actually ate anything on her plate, as opposed to pushing it around. ↗

— Julia Barr

#anything #around #ate #because #ever