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• Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things…
• The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.
• You see, control can never be a means to any practical end...It can never be a means to anything but more control...like…
• Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope…
• Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
• Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
• Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
• A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and…

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