“…death seemed the most prevalent feature of the landscape.”
Blood Meridian (1985)
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translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek
(original Dutch: citaat van Willem Roelofs, in het Nederlands:) Ik geloof beslist dat de natuur die het meest geschikt is om na te schilderen, het eenvoudige landschap is dat weinig indrukwekkend lijkt.
as cited in Zó Hollands - Het Hollandse landschap in de Nederlandse kunst sinds 1850, Antoon Erftemeijer https://www.franshalsmuseum.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/zohollands_eindversie_def_1.pdf; Frans Hals museum | De Hallen, Haarlem 2011, p. 16 – note 2
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“The prevalence of evil is the darkest and most frightening mystery of the universe.”
Cardinal Luca Rossini in Ch. 8
Eminence (1998)

(original Dutch: citaat van Willem Roelofs, in het Nederlands:) Ik geloof beslist dat de natuur die het meest geschikt is om na te schilderen, het eenvoudige landschap is dat weinig indrukwekkend lijkt.
as cited in Zó Hollands - Het Hollandse landschap in de Nederlandse kunst sinds 1850, Antoon Erftemeijer https://www.franshalsmuseum.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/zohollands_eindversie_def_1.pdf; Frans Hals museum | De Hallen, Haarlem 2011, p. 16 – note 2
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as quoted in Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Drawings, Helaine Posner, exhibition catalogue (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT List Visual Arts Center, 1992
1965 - 1995
“Competition-ruthless, unforgiving, to-the-death competition-is a crucial feature of capitalism.”
Part 3, Chapter 11, Competition, p. 129
Economics For Everyone (2008)

“Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.”

“In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly.”
Source: Redshirts

Introduction, part 2: The Influence of America on the Mind, p. 6.
The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson (1948)