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"Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again."

"Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return."

"Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none."

"Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other."

"No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us."

"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise."
Explore more quotes by Laurie Anderson

"The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals."

"I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual."

"A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production."

"The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage."

"It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons."

"Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded."

"I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work."
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