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As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives. ↗

— John G. D. Clark

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We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life. ↗

— David Elliott

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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story. ↗

— Yann Martel

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Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. ↗

— Billy Joel

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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world. ↗

— Iris Johansen

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Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

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Drunkenness is temporary suicide. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

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One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage. ↗

— David Simon

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But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it comes to the music which is analogous to that sort of art, they are not interested, or perhaps even hostile. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

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