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I, I wish you could swim
Like the dolphins
Like dolphins can swim Though nothing, nothing will keep us together
We can beat them, forever and ever
Oh, we can be heroes just for one day.

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As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.

A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)

Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.

A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)

The only value of ideology is to stop things becoming showbiz.

A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)

Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.

A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)

Ideas worth questioning: "Being an artist is a job for life."

A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)

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