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“Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.”
Source : Larry Rivers, Marlborough Gallery (2005). “Larry Rivers: paintings and drawings: 1951-2001 ; May 3-June 4, 2005”, Marlborough Gallery
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“Procrastination is a deadly weapon of human progress.”
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“You have to trust someone before you can have rituals with them.”
Source : Rachel Klein (2012). “The Moth Diaries”, p.23, Faber & Faber
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“For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species.”
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“Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.”
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“I'm impatient sometimes.”
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“I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as lights to those about you; that, in all your actions, you may justify the beauty of the taper by making your deeds honourable and effectual in the discharge of your duty to your fellow-men.”
Source : Michael Faraday (2016). “The Chemical History of a Candle”, p.89, Library of Alexandria
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“A true friend is someone who never gets tired listening to your pointless drama over and over again.”
