"People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by."

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Allen Drury

#People Quotes #Live By Quotes #Pretense Quotes

“Generally, health is just so heavily regulated. It's just a painful business to be in. It's just not necessarily how I want to spend my time.”
“The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that they make in space is as bound up with them as might be their colour or smell ... Therefore the painter must be as concerned with the air surrounding his subject as with the subject itself. It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.”
“Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.”
“I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.”
“A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.”
“Creativity is great-but not in accounting.”
“I don't follow politics; it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote?”
“My family’s said to me from the beginning, ‘People are always going to tell you to pick what you want to be when you grow up. You take that and throw it out the window, that’s garbage. People are complicated and we love many things and we’re passionate about many things. You can be a human rights activist and also be doing these comedy plays in your community and that’s OK. All those things are a part of who you are and you can love them equally.”

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