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#Support Quotes #Complaining Quotes #Nuclear Quotes
“My future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades.”
“What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.”
“In every island of the Aegaean Sea, on almost every barren rock I might say, are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire; and if the race was not far advanced in the arts of civilisation, it must at all events have had great numerical force.”
Source : "Aegean Islands: The Cyclades, Or Life Among the Insular Greeks".
“I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.”
“Judgements like "right" and "wrong"; only build barriers and encourage shame within individuals.”
“Obviously, where art has it over life is in the matter of editing. Life can be seen to suffer from a drastic lack of editing. It stops too quick, or else it goes on too long. Worse, its pacing is erratic. Some chapters are little more than a few sentences in length, while others stretch into volumes. Life, for all its raw talent, has little sense of structure. It creates amazing textures, but it can't be counted on for snappy beginnings or good endings either. Indeed, in many cases no ending is provided at all.”
Source : Larry McMurtry (2010). “Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood”, p.98, Simon and Schuster
“Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound of toll change in the ashtray. The absence of telltale tobacco stains on your shirt collar tells the tale - you've licked the smoking habit.”
“I was already headed for Hell, I might as well enjoy the ride.”
Elise M. Boulding Author
Hazel Henderson Author
Joseph Rotblat Physicist
Richard A. Falk Professor
Tadatoshi Akiba Japanese Politician
