“When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.”

Quoted in George Plimpton ed Writers at Work' Viking (1976)

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American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, an… 1932–2009

Hui Shi

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“It's the same game, I don't care where you are playing, Minnesota, Kansas City or New York, it's the same game.”

Derek Jeter (1974) American baseball player

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“Our new aim is the organisation of the material environment, i. e. of contemporary industrial production, and all active artistic creativity must be directed towards this.”

Lyubov Popova (1889–1924) Russian artist

Quote, End of 1921, from; Liubov Popova, untitled manuscript, cited by A. Adaskina in 'Liubov' Popova. Put' stanovleniia khudozhnika-konstruktora', 'Tekhnicheskaia estetika', no.11, 1978, p.19; as quoted by Christina Lodder in Tate Papers no. 14: Liubov Popova: From Painting to Textile Design http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/14/liubov-popova-from-painting-to-textile-designhttp://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/14/liubov-popova-from-painting-to-textile-design