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Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.
Laurie Anderson
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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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What happens when you're in a crash is you join a crash club, and you talk endlessly about your crash because you don't want to bore your friends with it. And they've heard about the crash so many times.
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I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.
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The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a godlike thing. You are the ultimate authority. There is no other ultimate authority.
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History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
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Life goes by so fast. It's really - and a lot of times things happen so fast you don't know - how should I react.
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I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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You know the reason I love the stars is because we can't hurt them: we can't burn them, we can't melt them , we can't make them overflow, we can't flood them or burn them up—so we keep reacing for them
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If I'm confused, I just spend some time looking at the sky and falling into it. It's not a meditation that anyone taught me, it's something I've done my whole life, and liked doing, and it made me feel like nothing.
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I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.
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Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.
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I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
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I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.
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Not many people care what you do. They care about what you do as much as you care about what they do. Think about it. Just exactly that much. You are not the center of the universe.
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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!
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There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.
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