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• I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job.

  Al Jardine

  Jobs, Thinking, Great Job

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• What goes by the name of love is banishment, with now and then a postcard from the homeland, such is my considered opinion, this evening.

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, Names, Evening

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.170, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Why is it so much easier to talk to a stranger? why do we feel we need to disconnect in order to connect? If I wrote "Dear Sofia" or "Dear Boomer" or "Dear Lily's Great-Aunt" at the top of this postcard, wouldn't that change the words that followed? Of course it would. But the question is: When I wrote "Dear Lily," was that just a version of "Dear Myself"? I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too

  David Levithan

  Aunt, Order, Needs

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• I like it [Rotterdam] much better than Amsterdam which is too much like a postcard. It's too cute for me. Rotterdam is more real, it's got a stomach.

  Nan Goldin

  Cute, Real, Amsterdam

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• For every wacky postcard, there's a million people waiting to buy it, and for every $10 million of those things, there's one Rembrandt. Purposely, I think I want to aim at doing something that a lot of people won't like. I'm just worried that it looks like I've compared my work with Rembrandt. "Gervais says he's better than Rembrandt!".

  Ricky Gervais

  Thinking, People, Waiting

  Interview with Scott Gordon, tv.avclub.com. January 10, 2007.

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• Just as in writing, there are novelistic and sort of pedestrian ways of telling a story, to write a postcard with your little pocket camera and put it on websites. I think that's where the most exciting kind of imagery and content is being recorded and exchanged today.

  Jonas Mekas

  Writing, Thinking, Today

  Interview with Peter BogdAnOvich, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 26, 2015.

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• Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations and even occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social reality. It has no existence without the rites of friendship. Social rituals create a reality which would be nothing without them.

  Mary Douglas

  Congratulations, Condolences, Reality

  "Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo".

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• We changed the name from Sex Gang Children to Culture Club because Jon Moss, our drummer, went to L.A. on holiday and took some demo tapes with him. -Everyone loved the music but nobody liked the name. I -remember getting a postcard from Jon from L.A. saying, "I don't think America's ready for the Sex Gang Children."

  Boy George

  Sex, Children, Holiday

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.

  Judith Martin

  Email, Fool, Ifs

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• I was a small business owner, father, and husband just living out in the suburbs. I kind of had a boring life until Post Secret came and turned that upside down. I printed up 3000 self-addressed postcards and handed them out to people on the street, inviting them to write down a secret on that postcard anonymously and mail it to me. I got a lot of surprises.

  Frank Warren

  Husband, Father, Writing

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• Quality doesn't mean deep blacks and whatever tonal range. That's not quality, that's a kind of quality. The pictures of Robert Frank might strike someone as being sloppy-the tone range isn't right and things like that-but they're far superior to the pictures of Ansel Adams with regard to quality, because the quality of Ansel Adams, if I may say so, is essentially the quality of a postcard. But the quality of Robert Frank is a quality that has something to do with what he's doing, what his mind is. It's not balancing out the sky to the sand and so forth. It's got to do with intention.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Mean, Sky

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• The sky was as blue as a stupid postcard, and the islands were as green as islands.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Stupid, Blue, Sky

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• When we`re done simplifying the tax code, getting the lobbyist carve outs our of the tax code, lowering our rates and letting people have a simple system, most Americans will be able to fill out their taxes on a postcard.

  Paul Ryan

  Simple, People, Lobbyists

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman's bottom? That's right, we all thought it was hilarious. But, it turns out we were wrong. That alligator was sexually harassing that woman.

  Homer

  Florida, Grandpa, Biting

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• They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They've got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants And the riot squad they're restless They need somewhere to go As Lady and I look out tonight From Desolation Row.

  Bob Dylan

  Hands, Squad, Needs

  Song: Desolation Row, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

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• For a long time I wanted to draw, but I could never get the proportions right. My still life sketches were the artistic equivalent of someone who has misjudged the space constraints of a postcard, the handwriting shrinking uncomfortably at the bottom.

  Sloane Crosley

  Space, Long, Shrinking

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• Deep patriots don't just sing the song, 'America the Beautiful' and then go home. We actually stick around to defend America’s beauty -- from the oil spillers, the clear-cutters and the mountaintop removers. Deep patriots don't just visit the Statue of Liberty and send a postcard home to grandma. We defend the principles upon which that great monument was founded -- 'give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.'

  Van Jones

  Beautiful, Song, Grandma

  Van Jones (2013). “Rebuild the Dream”, p.228, Nation Books

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• I just went to Europe, spent a year traveling, and then I came home with a finished album and said, "Hey everyone I'm back!" I gave everyone their lighters from Luxembourg, gave them the postcards from Italy and Rome, then said, "Hey look, I made a record, too" and played it for them. The general reaction was shock, because it was so different from what they've known me to do.

  Feist

  Home, Rome, Years

  Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2006.

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• Dear Alec and Magnus, This is the first postcard of five. Don't freak out or anything, but I need you to send me $150,000 to cover the cost of: 1) Two diamanté crowns 2) 20 peacocks 3) 300 chocolate lollipops in the shape of your heads 4) My dress 5) 500 lbs of glitter 6) One white horse (More to come in other cards) -Isabelle

  Cassandra Clare

  Horse, Two, White

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• I shot many scenes of Hamburg, albums full of postcard motifs, and I discarded almost all of them. I ride my bike through Hamburg every day. I go shopping here, I go to the doctor - and yet I no longer have the eye for telling stories about this damn city, even though I love it.

  Fatih Ak?n

  Eye, Cities, Shopping

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves.  Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it than a picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.  You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.

  Guy Finley

  Moving, Past, Reality

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• Why do you have to be out of town to write a postcard? I want a to write a postcard to my neighbor: "I still live near you!" The guy sees me go into my apartment, flips the card over, it's just a picture of me holding a rifle.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Writing, Humor

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• I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

  John Updike

  Years, Poetry, Four

  New York Times, April 7, 1968.

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• Millions of unnecessary photos are taken every day. People stand before the Pyramids and photograph them, when for three cents they could buy postcards which show them much better.

  Edouard Boubat

  Taken, Pyramids, People

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• Our tax plan by the way shows the vast, vast majority of Americans, upwards of 96 percent can fill out their taxes on a postcard.

  Paul Ryan

  Way, Majority, Taxes

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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