"Even the best-natured people, if uninstructed, are always blind and uncertain. We must take pains to instruct ourselves so that ignorance makes us neither too timid nor too bold."

-- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

#Pain Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #People Quotes

“I like to photograph miniature constructed scenes - I'll buy a very sad cake decoration like a plastic computer for a dreary office birthday party and construct a wildly colorful scene to put on its screen, or do a series of dollhouse chairs frozen in ice cubes.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“Since we're living with antibiotic drugs and chlorinated water and antibacterial soap and all these factors in our contemporary lives that I'd group together as a 'war on bacteria,' if we fail to replenish [good bacteria], we won't effectively get nutrients out of the food we're eating.”
“Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.”
“Your eye becomes more mature. What you don't see the first time, you keep looking, and eventually you'll see it. And when you are confident with what your eye sees, you know you've got to have it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“All middle men are bad.”

Source : Melody Maker, December 09, 1967.
“Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.”
“I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and youâ€™ll see what I mean.”

Source : David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.207, Vintage
“Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'”

Source : George F. Will (1983). “The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions”, Touchstone

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