I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.

Robert Rauschenberg

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Topic

Modern life

Speaker

Robert Rauschenberg

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

Occupation

Painter Artist

From

United States

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Rauschenberg, Robert. Quoted in The Bride & the Bachelors: The Heretical Courtship in Modern Art, by Calvin Tomkins. Viking Press, 1965.

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You live all your life on lies, and then maybe when you're ready to die, it comes to you-that there's nothing, nothing but yourself and what you could have done.

John Williams (novelist)

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Topic
Living inauthentically Lying to oneself Regrets
Speaker
J.D. McDonald

Author

John Williams (novelist)
Source
Butcher's Crossing
Medium
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Genre
Western fiction Western
Language
English
Time
1960 1960s 20th century
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Williams, John. Butcher's Crossing. Macmillan, 1960, pt. 3, ch. 1.