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#1. In the 'Nude Descending a Staircase,' I wanted to create a static image of movement: movement is an abstraction, a deduction articulated within the painting, without our knowing if a real person is or isn't descending an equally real staircase.

Marcel Duchamp

#2. When I put the poncho on to show Elf she said farewell to arms.

Miriam Toews

#3. This is a catastrophic universe, always; and subject to hidden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song of substance under pressure forced into new forms and shapes.

Doris Lessing

#4. I would be the best of us, the highest of the lows.

Kiera Cass

#5. It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way.

Edie Sedgwick

#6. There were torn between wanting to look back and wanting to exist absolutely in the new life they'd created

Cristina Henriquez

#7. Every time you go to see Hamlet you don't expect it to have a happy ending ... you're still enthralled.
(Interview BBC Radio 4 Today 17 October 2012.)

Hilary Mantel