"When you do not like human beings, you cannot make good portraits."

-- Gisele Freund

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“I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will see in these the likenesses of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, extensive plains; and you will see there battles and strange figures engaged in violent actions. For in such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of church bells, in whose reverberations you may find every word imaginable.”

Source : Ciaran Carson (2001). “Shamrock Tea”, Granta Books
“There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?”
“The FDA, NCI and ACS, and the large treatment centres work to eliminate choice of cancer therapies, particulary better ones. They openly attack breakthroughs made by "mavericks", which they define as anyone outside their ranks. Folks, any serious study of how these entities work together to destroy hopeful approaches to cancer reveals a trail of corruption, conspiracy, dishonesty, and inhumanity that warrants desigantion of evil........We continue to use them not because they work, but because those who perform them have so vigorously eliminated any other choice.”
“To feel. To trust the feeling. I long for that”
“Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.”
“Public opinion in this country is everything.”
“Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.”
“I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense of duty to my parents; obedience to the law and worship of convention. But in one year of being away from home, that girl had gone out of existence.”

Source : Jamaica Kincaid (2002). “Lucy: A Novel”, p.133, Macmillan

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