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"There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating."
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"Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions."
"When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist."
"I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality."
"Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing."
"The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature."
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"South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century."
"Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya."
"At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology."
"I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene."
"Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance."
"To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone."
"Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America."
"The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves."
"When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago."
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