Georges Braque Quotes
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.
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Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
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I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.'
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I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.
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This feeling of not belonging to the same sensation which grips you in a dream, you find yourself walking through an unfamiliar district. On waking you realize, little by little, that the pattern of its streets had overlaid with the one with which, in day time, you are familiar.
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In a society of employees dominated by the marketing mentality, it is inevitable that a personality market should arise. For in the great shift from manual skills to the art of 'handling', selling and servicing people, personal or even intimate traits of employees are drawn into the sphere of exchange and become commodities in the labor market.
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'You will be very welcome,' answered Dorothy, 'for you will help to keep away the other wild beasts. It seems to me they must be more cowardly than you are if they allow you to scare them so easily.' 'They really are,' said the Lion, 'but that doesn't make me any braver, and as long as I know myself to be a coward I shall be unhappy.'
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We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.
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Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.
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I could never understand why other kids wanted to truant - my education here gave me everything. It's the place where I really got to flourish.
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When the world decides to stop being greedy... there will be a harvest for the world! Amen.
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No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.
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A kiss for luck, demoiselle?" It is a magnificent, lusty kiss and I feel nothing but deep regret that it may be his last. Just before he pulls away, he whispers in my ear. "Duval said to give you that should I get a chance. It is from him.
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…all heroes and heroines trying to approximate, through barriers of pigmentation, to the Hebraico-Caucasian norm of Hollywood
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Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Before beginning, plan carefully.
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Truth exists; only lies are invented.
