Don't Think About Elephants

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from ‘Alice’ (1990)

Dr Yang: Best way to get to know strange man is to observe.

Alice: Yeah...

Alice: It's bitter. What will this do?

Dr Yang: Enable Mrs Tait to observe without being observed.

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Lawns are nature purged of sex and death.

Michael Pollan, “Why Mow? The Case Against Lawns,” The New York Times Magazine, May 28, 1989 qtd. in “Lawn Order,” 99% Invisible episode 177

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Vacuum Cleaner Sucks Up Budgie

“The Magnificent Seven,” Sandanista!, The Clash, 1980

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Kur River Basin, Fars, Iran. Tal-i Malyan site, GHI excavation. Excavation square H5; Vesta Sarkosh, November 4, 1976

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Jazz-minh Moore: Middle Of Nowhere, June 18 - July 31 claireolivergallery

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Existing in Costume, Hyewon Yi, 2006, from series Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography [exhibition catalog]

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Combat with No Bat (1996): Lesson 1: A Day at the Park Lesson 2: Domestic Traps Lesson 3: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Front Door Lesson 4: Fighting from Inside Cars Lesson 5: Gang Defense Lesson 6: Woman Asking Directions Lesson 10: Mercy and Advanced Mercy

The First Bad Man: A Novel, Miranda July, 2015

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The Essence of Red, The First Bad Man Store: 50 Objects Mentioned in the Novel, Miranda July, 2015

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Canis Lupus (Var. Ater), Linn. Black American Wolf, The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, John James Audubon, 1846

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Ursus Maritimus, Linn. Polar Bear, The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, John James Audubon, 1846

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The conclusion I came to— and it was important to come to a conclusion because you didn’t want these kinds of thoughts to just go on and on with no category and no conclusion— was that girls these days, when they weren’t hugging boys unromantically, were busy being generally aggressive. Whereas girls in my youth felt angry but directed it inward and cut themselves and became depressed, girls nowadays just went arrrrgh and pushed someone into a wall. Who could say which way was better? In the past the girl herself got hurt; now another unsuspecting, innocent person was hurt and the girl herself seemed to feel just fine. In terms of fairness maybe the past was a better time.

The First Bad Man: A Novel, page 42, Miranda July, 2015

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Bernhard Lang

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from series: Summer

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“Freud,” Seymour Chwast

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"Indigestion,” Seymour Chwast, 1977 

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I have identified [...] a historic knish corridor which extends from modern day Lithuania through Poland, Bialystok, Belarus and parts of Ukraine. Now, you may be thinking that corresponds with the pale of settlement where Jews were, and that’s true. But this is a sub section.

Laura Silver on episode 305 of the Dinner Party Download, May 15, 2015

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Lightness of Being: A portrait of Queen Elizabeth II with her eyes closed, Chris Levine, 2004

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Uh, don’t hate all rich people. They’re not all awful. Believe me, I know some evil poor people, too. We need some rich people: Who else is going to back our movies or buy our art? I’m rich! I don’t mean money-wise. I mean that I have figured out how to never be around assholes at any time in my personal and professional life. That’s rich. And not being around assholes should be the goal of every graduate here today. It’s OK to hate the poor, too, but only the poor of spirit, not wealth. A poor person to me can have a big bank balance but is stupid by choice – uncurious, judgmental, isolated and unavailable to change. I’m also sorry to report there’s no such thing as karma. So many of my talented great friends are dead and so many of the fools I’ve met and loathed are still alive. It’s not fair, and it never will be.

John Waters, Commencement Address to the Rhode Island School of Design, 2015