"Much of the blame is the malarkey that artists have created to glorify war, which as we all know, is nonsense, and a good deal worse than that â€” romantic pictures of battle, and of the dead and men in uniform and all that. And I did not want to have that story told again."

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Kurt Vonnegut

#War Quotes #Artist Quotes #Men Quotes

“If you feel inside you are a woman, be a woman - no one can take that away from you, man. No one can make that feeling go away. If that's what you need to do to be complete, then no one has the right to tell you you can't do that.”
“The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry, Medicine, or among members of the Airline Pilot's Association.”
“The events of September 11 were carried out by people armed not with weapons of mass destruction, but with blades you can buy at a newsagent”
“One of my struggles is that I'm a glutton. There's always those very simple, long, old-ass things, but they're very real to me, and I'm sitting in them, and they're swirling in my mind all the time. I tell people about it and they think, "Why don't you just go and make some money, go get a big-screen TV, or look at the Internet." Or they say, "Go create some introspective art." I just want to explode. I don't know how everybody else is able to walk around so calm. It's amazing to me when I see people walking so calmly down the street. I envy them, but I also kind of hate them.”
“I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects.”
“I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.”
“When Rioch came to Millwall we were depressed and miserable. He's done a brilliant job of turning it all around. Now we're miserable and depressed.”
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”

Source : Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3151, Delphi Classics

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