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Modello IV. Società orizzontale-individualista, postrivoluzionaria (attualmente non esistono esempi). L’ accento sarà posto sull’ uguaglianza e su quanto differenzia gli uni dagli altri; si tenderà all’ autorealizzazione, ma non a spese della autorealizzazione altrui; dovrà cioè trattarsi di un’ autorealizzazione che nello stesso tempo concorra alla realizzazione degli altri soggetti.

Magda Talamo

I leave the
house, hoping (and
fearing) something’s changed

Everyone has heard “Girl From Ipanema”; it’s one of the most popular songs in the world, after “Happy Birthday,” “Yesterday,” and “White Christmas.” It has become a bit of a lounge cliché, but try playing it using the original Jobim chords — it’ll kick your ass.

Buy only practical furniture and never buy decorative “pieces”.

Le Corbusier

Gilbert and George reiterated their manifesto from 1969, the “Laws of Sculptors”, which includes the rules: “Always be smartly dressed, well groomed, relaxed and friendly, polite and in complete control”; “Make the world to believe in you and to pay heavily for this privilege”; “Never worry, assess, discuss or criticise, but remain quiet, respectful and calm”; and, “The Lord chisels still, so don’t leave your bench for long”. “Ban religion,” they added for good measure.

“I often characterize my days as: I get up and I get to work and I run as fast as I can all day long—and about 10 times a day I run smack into a brick wall, and it knocks me down on my rear end,” Platt says. “But every so often when I hit the wall, there’s a door there. And I get to run through the door. It only happens infrequently, but once you run through that door, it’s quite glorious.”

Marc Platt

The industry is full of people who’ll go for a mechanism before they’ll go with instinct. We’re surrounded by Cambridge double firsts who are pointedly not using what they know. You just have to write with honesty. Emotional truth is the most powerful thing you’ve got.

Paul Abbott

I have never missed a meditation in 34 years. I meditate once in the morning and again in the afternoon, for about 20 minutes each time. Then I go about the business of my day. And I find that the joy of doing increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows.

David Lynch
The pleasure of life grows

Crime doesn’t pay. I should have gone to college.

Kirk