Sheila Heti Quotes
I'm in a serious monogamous relationship, and I don't want to keep having different boyfriends, and I have this instead - with men and women. It's better. Instead of having sex, we have art.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
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If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
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No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
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I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
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Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.
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We recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as Japanese, Chinese and Indian, even Balinese or Thai.
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I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if I can approach writing with much less control and in a better psychological state. It will be like breaking out of a straitjacket.
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It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.
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I've known too many men who never quite felt married no matter how many wives they'd been through. Their own and otherwise.
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I am not meet for petty men, the book a boss: They saw not Arthur's virtue beyond the Fort of Glasses. Three score centuries of men stationed on the wall: to speak with its sentinel was not easy. Three fulnesses of Prydwen we went with Arthur, Save for seven none came up from Fort Hindrance.
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All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt.
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Men tend to have the beliefs that suit their passions. Cruel men believe in a cruel God, and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly God, and they would be kindly in any case.
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The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers.
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My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
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Muhammad Ali inside the ring and Muhammad Ali outside the ring were totally different men; his abrasive, magnetic daring and infectious self-love outside the ring galvanized the world and distracted many from his sniper's precision. He was a heavyweight with the fluttering gracefulness of a middleweight.
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It is a real piece of art if you can make a waltz sound like it is the easiest piece of music to play, because it's really not.
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I love the idea of modern art in a home that isn't totally modern. There's a certain energy that comes out of that juxtaposition.
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Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.
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I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.
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My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.
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I'm in a serious monogamous relationship, and I don't want to keep having different boyfriends, and I have this instead - with men and women. It's better. Instead of having sex, we have art.
