"A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography and autobiography, and so that will be my next thing."

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Source : Source: www.compulsivereader.com

Robert Dessaix

#Art Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.”
“Its not over, until the Lord says its over.”
“I don't think when you work you have to please everybody - you make a choice. It's not like everybody who is in front of you has to become your best friend.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Writers are storytellers. So are readers.”
“When I was growing up, hip-hop music existed as American thing. If you listened to it you were listening to an American subculture, whereas now you're just listening to pop music that everyone shares. I think that's big.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.”
“No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.”

Source : Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon
“I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing”

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