absurdity

Southern Gothic

"It's a pity you got published so young. You'll only see the world from a successful perspective."
- Tennessee Williams [1911-1983]

Carr's most famous work

 

inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture

Pablo Picasso's [1881-1973] collaboration with Georges Braque [1882-1963] where paintings became not representations of things but things in themselves ended by the latter's head wound sustained as a WWI reservist - the Spaniard said he never saw his French friend again.

top spin

“The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.”

– Martina Navratilova [born 1956]

perspective

"I ate a dog today."
- A South-African's response to Dave Chapelle [born 1973] who escaped to that country after bailing on a $50 million development agreement with Comedy Central.

on food

"No matter 3-star Michelin or a McDonald's Double Quarter Pounder, in a matter of hours it becomes excrement."
- Anthony Bourdain [1956-2018]

on aging

"You recognize cycles better. And you know you will survive."
- Willem Dafoe

on figurative and literal death

"Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened."
- Axiom

dessert

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
- Carl Sagan

the fortune of misfortune

"I've made a thousand mistakes, but I wouldn't change anything as they brought me to this place."
- Willie Nelson

Fogo Island

"Better to be looking at it than looking for it."
- Newfoundland aphorism on literal and metaphorical storms

Perspective

"You got to choose where you are headed not where you are."
- Deion Sanders

to improve the world

"Instead of asking 'what do you want to be when you grow up?' Ask 'what can you contribute when you grow up?'"
- America Ferrera 

White House

"It's a nice prison, but a prison nonetheless."
- Harry Truman

on his craft

"We're not saving lives. Maybe we're saving someone's day."
- a reasonable European Chef

oddity

"They say life is too short, but I think it's eennnddleeesss."
- Amy Sedaris

"A lot of people look but don't see."
- Paul Smith

"Don't look back; that's not where you're going. Accept things that have happened in the past, but pay attention to where things are going in the future and focus on that, because that's your life."
- Chris Hadfield

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"Until the lion tells his own story, the tale will continue to glorify the hunter."
- African proverb

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