You have a painting

The thing that defines a person is, I think, a set of serious contradictions that you get from splashes of color. Out of that, you have a painting. Out of that painting, you find parts that are worth looking at or not worth looking at.

Paul Newman (in The Extraordinary Life of an ordinary Man)

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He's the only Frank Zappa I knew (Captain Beefheart)

R.I.P. Peter Joyce

What connection can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together! Charles Dickens (in Bleak House )

That's about right: a little, no more (Michel Houellebecq)

Photo by Rupert Britton on Unsplash When all's said and done, the idea of the uniqueness of the individual is nothing more than pompous absurdity. We remember our lives, Schopenhauer wrote somewhere, a little better than a novel we once read. Michel Houellebecq (in Platform )

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