Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film... studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief.... Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louvre! A bas l'originalité, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le sol--pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the game of "Whist for two," usually called "Correspondence," the lady plays what card she likes: the gentleman simply follows ...suit. If she leads with "Queen of Diamonds," however, he may, if he likes, offer the "Ace of Hearts": and, if she plays "Queen of Hearts," and he happens to have no Heart left, he usually plays "Knave of Clubs."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
my Uncle Sol's farm failed because the chickens... ate the vegetables so my Uncle Sol had a chicken farm till the skunks ate the chickens whenLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not object to Gladstone's always having the ace of trumps up his sleeve, but only to his pretence that God had put it there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Will you greet your doom As final; set him loaves and wine; knowing... The game is finished when he plays his ace, And overturn the table and go into the next room?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A pragmatic race, the Japanese appear to have decided long ago that the only reason for drinking alcohol is to become intoxicated ...and therefore drink only when they wish to be drunk. So I went out into the night and the neon and let the crowd pull me along, walking blind, willing myself to be just a segment of that mass organism, just one more drifting chip of consciousness under the geodesics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bobby read his future in women; his girls were omens, changes in the weather, and he'd sit all night in the Gentleman Loser waitin...g for the season to lay a new face down in front of him like a card.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »