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"'Zona' is a mad endeavor, almost a provocation, certainly a challenge to Dyer himself — how can I keep people interested?" More
"He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting an error and this touch in turn became an error to be corrected and so the tune never quite ended up the way it was meant to."
— Geoff Dyer, But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More

"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More