"It it's true that fastidiousness and attention to detail is very much in my genes - if you knew my parents, you'd see that this is something I've inherited, only doubly so."

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George Benjamin

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“Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.”
“The essence of the this-time-is-different syndrome is...rooted in the firmly held belief that financial crises are things that happen to other people in other countries at other times; crises do not happen to us, here and now. We are doing things better, we are smarter, we have learned from past mistakes. The old rules of valuation no longer apply. Unfortunately, a highly leveraged economy can unwittingly be sitting with its back at the edge of a financial cliff for many years before chance and circumstance provoke a crisis of confidence that pushes it off.”
“The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.”
“The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.”
“I want to paint a canvasthat will be nothing but harmonious tone.”

Source : Carl Schmitt, Samuel Armstrong Schmitt (2012). “Carl Schmitt: The Vision of Beauty”, p.10, Scepter Publishers
“It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.”
“Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.”
“The perils of duck hunting are great- especially for the duck.”

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