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• I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
  -- Marcel Duchamp...
• Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large, I contain multitudes).
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• If I could kick my own butt, I would amaze myself!
• I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. -- Marcel Duchamp
• A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other me
  living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving....
• Troi: "I've learned to remind myself that my mother and I are two separate individuals.
  Jev: "And have you enjoyed much success with this approach, Counselor?...
• I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
  -- Frederick Dougla...