"I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never giving a straight or definitive answer."

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Matthea Harvey

#Giving Quotes #Asking Quotes #Answers Quotes

“As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.”
“Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound.”
“It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job other than at one's best ability.”

Source : Biography/Pesonal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.”

Source : Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.144
“We have to assess: Are we making disciples along the way as we draw people to our churches?”
“I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive,and love me even as you know it.”

Source : Georges Bataille (1972). “My mother”, Jonathan Cape
“My canvas soothes me into forgetfulness of the scene of turmoil and folly - and worse - of the scene around me. Every gleam of sunshine is blighted to me in the art at least. Can it therefore be wondered at that I paint continual storms? "Tempest o'er tempest roll'd" - still the "darkness" is majestic.”

Source : Letter to C.R. Leslie (1834), "John Constable's Correspondence," ed. R.B. Beckett, vol. 3, p. 122, 1962-1970.
“Brittany and I don't date other people." "Why not?" "It's called being boyfriend and girlfriend.”

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