"The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress."

-- Oliver Goldsmith

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“And like my dad always said, the first step is always the hardest.”
“We are in front of a global scandal of around one billion - one billion people who still suffer from hunger today. We cannot look the other way and pretend this does not exist. The food available in the world is enough to feed everyone.”
“...You can find people. It's like those acrobatic displays.... Those ones when you stand on top of loads of people in a pyramid. It doesn't really matter who they are, as long as they're there and you don't let them go away without finding someone else.”
“At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.”
“the writer must resist this temptation [to quote] and do his best with his own tools. It would be most convenient for us musicians if, arrived at a given emotional crisis in our work, we could simply stick in a few bars of Brahms or Schubert. Indeed many composers have no hesitation in so doing. But I have never heard the practice defended; possibly because that hideous symbol of petty larceny, the inverted comma, cannot well be worked into a musical score.”

Source : Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”
“Energy is essential for development, and sustainable energy is essential for sustainable development.”
“I'm not promoting myself as the next great American driver, as some people are describing me. If that's what people want to call me, fine. But I've got more important things to focus on.”
“I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.”

Source : 1889 Diary.

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