"collections are amusing only in the making; afterwards they are like sporting prints without the sport. The sons of collectors inherit only the corpse of their fathers' satisfied passion."

-- Marthe Bibesco

#Sports Quotes #Father Quotes #Passion Quotes

“It was great fun becoming famous, but I got tired of it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 1999.
“Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.”

Source : Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart”, p.495, Library of Alexandria
“People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenko 's poem, but they were silent. And when they read the poem, the silence was broken. Art destroys silence.”

Source : "Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich". Book by Solomon Volkov, New York: Limelight, pp. 158-9, 2006.
“Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!”
“Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.”
“The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'”
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.”

Source : "Can We Gain Strength From Shame?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 11, 2013.
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”

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