"An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass."

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Source : Heinrich Böll (1965). “The clown”, Avon Books

Heinrich BÃ¶ll

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“The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire.”

Source : Lucian of Samosata (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucian (Illustrated)”, p.473, Delphi Classics
“True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work.”
“A shadowless man is a monster, a devil, a thing of evil. A man without a shadow is soulless. A shadow without a man is a pitiable shred. Yet together, light and dark, they make a whole.”
“so much depends upon a red wheel barrow”
“The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb.”
“I think the eyeball is the same, [in] an American or African. The problem is the same, the treatment is the same. Yet why should there be so much variation in quality and in service?”
“Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.”
“A well-behaved woman seldom makes history”

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