"There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat."

-- Laura Lippman

#Eating Quotes #Cooks Quotes

“In all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own”
“The military value of a partisan's work is not measured by the amount of property destroyed, or the number of men killed or captured, but by the number [of the enemy which] he keeps watching [him].”
“We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.”
“Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.”
“I've said for quite a long time I'd like him to have a different haircut. I quite like my hair being short. You know, we've been away two years, let's ***** around with his outfit, let's ***** around with his haircut, let's do something different.”
“Every cell in your body is seeking fulfillment through joy, beauty, love and appreciation.”
“I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree, which grows in a particular place and has a trunk, leaves, blossoms, boughs, fruit, and roots of its own. The more native art is, the more it belongs to the entire world, because taste is rooted in nature. When art is true, it is one with nature. This is the secret of primitive art and also of the art of the mastersMichelangelo, Czanne, Seurat, and Renoir. The secret of my best work is that it is Mexican.”

Source : Diego Rivera, with Gladys March (2012). “My Art, My Life: An Autobiography”, p.31, Courier Corporation
“To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.”

Source : Alphonse de Lamartine, James B. Runnion (1911). “Graziella: a story of Italian love. Translated ... by James B. Runnion. Sixteen thousand”

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