"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."

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Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it."

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Tom Wolfe, American Journalist

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"I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?"

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"I hate show business."

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"We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy."

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"This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms."

Lie

"My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die."

Time

"You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life."

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"Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!"

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"I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it."

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"The more decadent a culture gets, the more they have a need for what they don't have at all, which is innocence, so you end up with kiddie porn and a perverse obsession with youth."

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