"If you can learn to convey what you express in the first rough sketch, you're really saying what you need to say in that."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Barry Blitt

#Needs Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Rough Quotes

“Touch her, and I'll freeze your testicles off and put them in a jar. Understand?”
“If you are forced to describe things for someone else, it sharpens your senses. And also your sense of how hard it is to make the translation from the vibrant, multi-faceted world to a sentence that distils it.”

Source : "Ask the Author Live: Judith Thurman on Laura Ingalls Wilder". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2009.
“One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.”
“You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or painting-forces your eye.”
“You are someone; that's enough. Everybody's feelings are ultimately the same. The desire to be special, to be wanted, to be seen. That's the same, too.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The politicized version of Shia Islam that we see in the Islamic Republic post-1979 clearly is very conservative, but, there are other things one could say about Ayatollah Khomeini's concept of a Shia state because that in itself is a blasphemy as far as most Shia clerics are concerned. There's a theory that he developed in the early 1960s in the town of Najaf talking about - well not liberalism, necessarily, but flexibility though.”
“If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a peculiar aptitude towards the same branch would be found among some of his descendants.”
“Desires are seeds waiting for their season to sprout. From a single seed of desire, whole forests grow.”

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