"What do drawings mean to me? I really don't know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don't think happens with any other activity."

-- John Berger

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“I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.”

Source : "The Crisis of Crowding: Quant Copycats, Ugly Models, and the New Crash Normal". Book by Ludwig B. Chincarini, 2012.
“One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.”
“I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.”
“Reason forbade me many things which, Instinctively, my nature was attracted to; And a perpetual loss I feel if, knowing, I believe a falsehood or deny the truth.”
“Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.”

Source : William Kingdon Clifford (1884). “The Scientific Basis of Morals: And Other Essays, Viz. : Right and Wrong, the Ethics of Belief, the Ethics of Religion”
“People are able to live with only half a heart, to live without real compassion, because they are able to use words that are only forms.”

Source : Angus Wilson, Kerry McSweeney (1984). “Diversity and Depth in Fiction: Selected Critical Writings of Angus Wilson”, Viking Adult
“It is not worth it to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son.”
“This is a sport where you get your ego checked on a regular basis, whether it's in the cage or it's at practice.”

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