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“If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.”
― Emerson M. Pugh

“Although the art world reveres the unconventional, it is rife with conformity. Artists make work that "looks like art" and behave in ways that enhance stereotypes. Curators pander to the expectations of their peers and their museum boards. Collectors run in herds to buy work by a handful of fashionable painters. Critics stick their finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing so as to "get it right". Originality is not always rewarded, but some people take real risks and innovate, which gives a raison d'être to the rest.”
― Sarah Thornton, Seven Days in the Art World

“I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness. I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too. I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.”
― Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis

“In the end we are all caught in devices of our own making. I believe that. In the end we are all caught.”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars