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1 " Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. "
― Brendan Gill
2 " Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts. "
3 " We pile one skyscraper next to another, so the squirrels could leap from one top to the next, and pretty soon we're living in the bottom of a well. Psychologically you feel uneasy. Feel in shadow. Something is threatening you. You're trapped inside something that is beyond the human scale, and none of the things we need, like light and air and the sun on our skins is any longer present. "
4 " My definition of a hero is a man who tests himself by a series of ordeals, each more difficult than the last; he’s not competing in the world at all, he’s competing only against himself. "
