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Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives


Roy L. Pickering Jr.

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JR Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on...
JR I want to create the largest-ever participatory art project and highlight the concept of Shadow Phil...
JR Even when I do really big pieces, I do them strips by strips - so you have to paste, you have to inv...
JR The fact that I stay anonymous means I can exhibit wherever I want. No one knows my name, so it'...
JR Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art ...
JR There were miracles long before Christianity.
JR There's a woman in China having a baby every 6 minutes. They're trying to find her to stop her.
JR Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime.
JR At the base of the eyelash is an invisible mite. Ask not what your mite can do for you but what you ...
JR A bully is a coward turned inside out.
JR They were all enemy. They were all to be destroyed.
LT WILLIAM L. CALLEY JR. That was the order of the day.
LT WILLIAM L. CALLEY JR. They were all enemy. They were all to be destroyed.
LT WILLIAM L. CALLEY, JR. Losing your mind is just like ruining a flower just have to keep plucking at their petals
L Manipulation and pretentiousness, the dead can't do that.
L Your cynical ways define your soul as you treat the people who love you with nothing more than utter...
L Having many friends doesn't guarantee that you might still feel lonely
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