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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#extent #imagination #life #live #metaphysics

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

#civilized #civilized society #crimes #god #likely

Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

#fishing #half #industry #new #new zealand

Zero of Animal Life probably about 300 fathoms. ↗

— Edward Forbes

#animal #animal life #fathoms #life #probably

Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequality, only fragments, never conflict. ↗

— Elizabeth Wilson

#conflict #difference #fragments #inequality #never

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing. ↗

— Helen Frankenthaler

#effective #every #inch #matter #paint

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#dreams #most #often #profound #seem

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#country #criticizes #his #implied #paying

You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off. ↗

— Michael Gambon

#being lazy #classical #doing #films #finish

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#america #ancestry #black #brazil #drop