Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Quotes
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.
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False praise is worse than no praise.
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I think it's important to remember that civil rights and economic rights are mutually dependent.
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Lady Madonna lying on the bed Listen to the music playing in your head.
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[On returning to the country] I went back to where I belonged.
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I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
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The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness.
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From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fixed sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch. Fire answers fire, and through their play flames Each battle sees the other's umbered face. Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.
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Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man!
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Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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Last, but not least -- in fact, this is most important -- you need a happy ending. However, if you can create tragic situations and jerk a few tears before the happy ending, it will work much better.
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It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist.
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When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
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Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.
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Satan can't keep God from answering our prayers, but he will keep us from asking.
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A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
