"If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life."

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Diane Frolov

#Art Quotes #Cat Quotes #House Quotes

“Hatred and bitterness and anger only consume the vessel that contains them. It doesn't hurt another soul.”

Source : "Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter still fighting long after boxing days pass" by Eliott C. McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2011.
“You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent, stop grieving. You will learn to compound happiness out of small increments of mindless pleasure.”
“Shaka Zulu had an all-female force of fighters. Women have been part of every resistance movement. Women dressed as men and went to war, went to sea, and participated actively in combat for as long as there have been people.”

Source : Kameron Hurley (2016). “The Geek Feminist Revolution”, p.263, Macmillan
“I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggling.”
“If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region.”
“The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind...”
“Two places in this world make it impossible for a man to escape from himself: a battlefield and a prison cell.”

Source : Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row
“I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.”

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