"I present the thing we're going to do as a simple starting point. They all know it's an art piece and that it's all going to be recorded. And I have never had an experience where one of these men tried to take advantage of the situation. If they were guilty of anything it was of being lonely. It was never that they were violent or dangerous."

-- Laurel Nakadate

#Lonely Quotes #Art Quotes #Simple Quotes

“You think to yourself, “If one drink feels really good and two feels really, really good, a hundred ought to feel fantastic.” As sane people know, it doesn't work that way. A hundred drinks feels terrible. Bad things happen. But the addict keeps at it, thinking at some point it's going to get good again The point is to not feel what you're feeling. The problem is, you become someone you never thought you would become, and you have no idea how you got there.”

Source : Kim Severson (2010). “Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life”, p.13, Penguin
“A 3-foot putt can be more nerve-racking than a 9-foot putt because a 3-foot putt you should be getting in. A 9-footer, there's a chance it won't go in.”
“It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to think about”
“I'm going home now. I apologize for what I said. I hope you can forget it, but I'm going home right now.”
“In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.”
“It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest.”
“We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest--blank; and the world tells uswhat we are to be, and shapes us by the ends it sets before us. To you it says--Work; and to us it says--Seem! To you it says--As you approximate to man's highest ideal of God, as your arm is strong and your knowledge great, and the power to labour is with you, so you shall gain all that human heart desires. To us it says--Strength shall not help you, nor knowledge, nor labour. You shall gain what men gain, but by other means. And so the world makes men and women.”

Source : Olive Schreiner (1896). “The Story of an African Farm: A Novel”
“Christmas sweaters are only acceptable as a cry for help.”

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