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The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that made trade relations b...

W. Averell Harriman

I want to create the largest-ever participatory art project and highlight the concept of Shadow Philanthropy, where people help others create work without taking credit for it - through this we can really change the world.

JR

I love games. I honestly can't imagine working with any other medium. I guess it would be akin to an artist who's doing commercial art and then goes into education, but it really frees you up to do all other kinds of creative stuff.

Brenda Brathwaite

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.

Julie Taymor

Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace

The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings

Anything that smiles often needs to be reminded that the world is a cruel, dark place.

5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth and Other Useful Guides

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Anarchism and Other Essays

He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

The Aleph and Other Stories

So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with literature.

The Aleph and Other Stories

Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.

The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories

Ogni linguaggio è un alfabeto di simboli il cui uso presuppone un passato che gli interlocutori condividono; come trasmettere agli altri l'infinito Aleph, che la mia timorosa memoria a stento abbraccia?

The Aleph and Other Stories

Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are...

William S. Burroughs

Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand everything, and make you feel anything. Other arts can do that, but movies are the only ones that can incorporate other...

Wesley Morris

I will come back to you, I swear I will; And you will know me still. I shall be only a little taller Than when I went.

The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems

Woodrow Wilson claimed that history endows us with the "invaluable mental power we call judgment.

Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past

Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

The Happy Prince and Other Tales

Here's some simple advice: Always be yourself. Never take yourself to seriously. And beware of advice from experts, pigs, and members of Parliament.

It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

Yes, confidence was knowing I could do anything. But, I realized, confidence must always be rooted in work. In sweat. In pain-good pain. And in honesty.

It's So Easy: And Other Lies

It is a misfortune to be in the presence of a writer, even a failed writer, to be seen by him, be his passing study and remain in his corrupt memory. It is like the insult of a corpse on the road by a war photographer.

The Illicit Happiness of Other People

Tell this guy to eat a hundred-calorie pack of dicks.

I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays