Claude Monet Quotes
For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
Quotes to Explore
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
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So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.
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People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.
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Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
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It shows how from very, very dark circumstances -- and we've had to deal with terrorism year after year after year which has killed hundreds of people -- it is possible to see the light, provide the process to keep going and achieve results.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been requested to assist in the investigation of reported sightings of flying disks.
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When any living thing has come to the end of its cycle, we accept that end as natural. When that intangible cycle has run its course it is a natural and not unhappy thing that a life comes to its end.
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A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
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We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it.
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Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play... I tell you, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.
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Do you know what I think, Potter?' said Snape, very quietly. "I think that you are a liar and a cheat and that you deserve detention with me every Saturday until the end of term. What do you think, Potter?
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It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream. This, thought Harry, was surely the only way to travel - past swirls and turrets of snowy cloud, in a car full of hot, bright sunlight, with a fat pack of toffees in the glove compartment.
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My family was totally non-religious. There was no question we were Jewish, but we were not observant.
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Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
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The knowledge that she was needed by something living, that she could benefit another creature, produce happiness, or contentment, or just a feeling of security - somehow it filled a part of her as nothing else had.
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Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have.
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I've now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
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As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.
