"that sunlight of the dead which is called literature."

-- Marthe Bibesco

#Literature Quotes #Sunlight Quotes

“Inside every man there is a poet who died young.”
“Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you have seen something beyond price; then you are to turn and assign to your record of it a cash value. If the selling is not necessarily a contradiction of the truth in the picture, it is so close to being a contradictionâ€”and the truth is always in shades of gray-that you are worn down by the threat.”
“The bore is good for promoting sleep; but though he causeth sleep in others, it is uncertain whether he ever sleeps himself; as few can keep awake in his company long enough to see. It is supposed that when he sleeps it is with his mouth open.”
“How long is this endless groveling before every cry of 'racism' going to continue before the whole country collectively throws up?”
“Demonstrate to your customer the difference between price and cost. The price is what it takes to purchase the item. The cost is the amount the customer eventually pays. They are not the same.”
“Those who will not start, will never finish.”
“For an acrobat, the acting concepts of 'risk', 'a life or death situation' and 'trusting your partner' are visceral. If an actor loses focus, the scene dies; if an acrobat loses focus, their partner might die.”
“To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is not to ask for anything more nor less in their case than in the case of any human to whom just treatment is due. The animal rights movement is a part of, not opposed to, the human rights movement. Attempts to dismiss it as anti human are mere rhetoric.”

Source : Tom Regan (2004). “The Case for Animal Rights”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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