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Carrie Fisher
“And not that it matters, but my mother is not a lesbian! She's just a really, really bad heterosexual.”
Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
tags: humor

Sarah Thornton
“Although the art world is frequently characterised as a classless scene where artists from lower-msddle-class backgrounds drink champagne with high-priced hedge-fund managers, scholarly curators, fashion designers and other "creatives," you'd be mistaken if you thought the world was egalitarian or democratic. Art is about experimenting with ideas, but it is also about excellence and exclusion. In a society where everyone is looking for a little distinction, it's an intoxicating combination.”
Sarah Thornton, Seven Days in the Art World

Carrie Fisher
“I not only feel better about myself because these people are also fucked up (and I guess this gives us a sense of community), but I feel better because look how much these fellow fuckups managed to accomplish!”
Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

Annalee Newitz
“As UC Berkeley economics professor Brad DeLong put it to me:

You get famine if the price of food spikes far beyond that of some people's means. This can be because food is short, objectively. This can be because the rich have bid the resources normally used to produce food away to other uses. You also get famine when the price of food is moderate if the incomes of large groups collapse.... In all of this, the lesson is that a properly functioning market does not seek to advance human happiness but rather to advance human wealth. What speaks in the market is money: purchasing power. If you have no money, you have no voice in the market. The market acts as if it does not know you exist and does not care whether you live or die.

DeLong describes a marketplace that leaves people to die - not out of malice , but out of indifference.”
Annalee Newitz, Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction

Wendy Jones
“An art college tip is probably the repository for some of the ugliest objects on earth because they aren't only ugly objects, they're ugly objects that are trying to be art.”
Wendy Jones, Grayson Perry: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl

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