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"Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective."
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"Think independently and critically, but never forget to think with understanding and love."
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"There is nothing wrong or right, only our thoughts make it so."
"Opinion about religion might be different, but religion should be one and that is the well being of humanity."
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"Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us-flesh and bone-only to be spewed out again in our own works."
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"Maybe the world isn't enough, or maybe the distinction between the world and fiction is not so clear. Fiction is made from the stuff of the world, after all, which includes dreams and wishes and fantasies and memory. And it is never really made alone, but from the material between and among us: language."
"There is no perception without memory. But good art surprise us. Good art reorients our expectations, forces us to break the pattern, to see in a new way."
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"We all start out the same in our mothers' wombs. We, all of us, when floating in the amniotic sea of our earliest oblivion, have gonads. If the Y chromosome didn't swoop in to act on the gonads of some of us and make testes, we would all become women. In biology, the Genesis story is reversed: Adam becomes Adam out of Eve, not the other way around."
"The bottle of red brush on a white table gleamed throughout the remaining years of my childhood as the sign of what was possible there."
"Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others."
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