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As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.

John Cage

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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want
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No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
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Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.
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