"The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true."

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Source : Adam Phillips (2010). “On Balance”, p.210, Penguin UK

Adam Phillips

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“There's a lot of rage you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.”
“There are people creating Photoshopped pictures of me getting beat as if I were a slave back in the day.”
“The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.”
“God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.”
“I have come to know well that fates are fickle in the business of English football. And I feel that I have pushed mine well past the limit.”

Source : "Paul Lambert to have crisis talks with Aston Villa owner, Randy Lerner" by Stuart James, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2014.
“People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.”
“Nothing's worse than a woman know-it-all.”
“I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?”

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