"A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future."

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Robert Payne

#Art Quotes #People Quotes #Culture Quotes

“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
“Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.”
“What discord we should bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered. Then we should govern the world and not God. And do you think we should govern it better? It gives me only pain when I hear the long, wearisome petitions of people asking for they know not what. . . . Thanks-giving with a full heart-and the rest silence and submission to the divine will!”
“I'm 47 years old. I couldn't compete with Beyonce. I'm not competing with anyone. I've already established myself as an artist. I've been in this business for 30 years. There's no reason for me to compete with anyone.”
“It's not John who wants to cut his mother into tiny pieces, it's Mr. Monster. See? I feel better already.”
“Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.”
“This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.”
“When you're a kid, you think, "Well, I will grow up and I will get a wife and we will have kids and then we will have grandkids." My life has a different shape. That is weird, but there are things about it that are exciting.”

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