"In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse."

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William Butler Yeats

#Work Quotes #Frustration Quotes #Night Quotes

“Everyone desires long life, not one old age.”
“I do not whisper obscurities in some dark corner. I would not have told the people of Israel to seek me if I could not be found. I, the Lord, speak only what is true and declare only what is right.”
“Public radio has always been so powerless.”
“Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.”
“I think women who are pretty certainly have an advantage in any field, in any profession. When a girl is born people still say: Oh, I'm glad that she is pretty. They don't look at whether she is intelligent.”

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“I never planned on being an actress, just as I never planned on being a model. I went to law and international-relations school. It wasn't my direction. It kind of happened to me. And because it wasn't my dream when I started, I wasn't starstruck.”

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“Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.”
“An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of good artists Â– in short, who knows in what excellence consists - will, with the assistance of models... be an overmatch for the greatest painter that ever lived who should be debarred such advantages.”

Source : Sir Joshua Reynolds (1837). “Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait”, p.244

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