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1 " Old movies already inprogress, already passed overtwice, watched with indifferenceuntil orchestras swell overhappy endings, new beginnings.The images black and white,the lie white. (Ours is a world ofheroes and of winners, and rarelyare they one in the same.) "
― J. Andrew Schrecker , Insomniacs, We
2 " Many are quick to dismiss those who pursue the arts, insisting a degree in one useless or a vow of poverty appropriate, yet wouldn’t want to live in a world without music, literature, television, or videogame. "
― J. Andrew Schrecker
3 " If you're going nowhere, you might as well go all the way. "
4 " Births and cancer treatments are so expensive, it's a luxury to live, a privilege to die. "
― J. Andrew Schrecker , Post-Millennium Rhapsody
5 " Our tragedies as fleeting as our smiles. Our futures not etched in stone, but drawn in sand. "
6 " Wash, rinse, and repeat. Such is History. "
7 " How we devour one another's culture, do so without shame--ideas like water, free flowing and able to take on other forms. Able to flood highways, level entire cities if summoned with enough force. "
8 " The powers that be no longer have to stifle information. They can now overload us with so much of it, there's no way to know what's factual or not. The ability to be an informed public is only going to worsen with advancing deep fake technology.Incriminating audio and video will hold even less weight than it already does. A government doesn't have to lie to its people or censor its enemies when no one believes a thing to begin with.We're entering the Post-Information Age. "
9 " General audiences may want escapism but what they need is catharsis. "
10 " The kind of love I seek is a folie a deux. "
11 " And yes, life ismostly boring, andwe each go through itfeeling ugly or likea failure, but sometimesthe sun cuts througha tree line just right, oryou get to holdsomeone's hand forthe first time. "
12 " There's a lot of humiliation inliving, but that's okay, for ifthe gods are always laughing,then surely at times they mustbe laughing with us. "
13 " The heart too is a black hole, collapsed by the weight of its own longing. "
14 " If you always wait until the last minute to do something, you'll discover most things only take a minute to do. "
15 " What I want is for you to touch me in ways that hands and teeth and skin cannot. "
16 " Alarm clocks unset, their tauntssilent. Crystals flashing dire red,as if to warn of seconds thatdwell, of years that fleet. "
17 " I once found a phoenixcharred in its own ashes. Ibrought it home withme, wept through the night,and then tossed it tothe wind--its brittle bodydispersing all about.This thing withouta name and deep withinme--how it truly believesthat if something is meantto take flight, then itmust one way or another. "
18 " Temporary can mean six seconds or six years, and you never know, because temporary never feels temporary. "
19 " I think most artists, especially those who deal with contemporary issues and mean it, look forward to the day when their work will no longer be relevant. "
20 " Science sustains life, but art makes it tolerable. "
