"But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?"

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Wilkie Collins

#Fall Quotes #Persevere Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each other.”
“The joy of painting lies precisely in the challenge of memory and the challenge of translation from the lived experience to the two-dimensional or three-dimensional symbol.”
“I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens”
“Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.”
“I go to my physical therapist to keep fighting it and one of them told me if you don't use it, you lose it, but I know we're on television so I won't say what I would often say.”
“Authenticity is what I've always gone after in my work, and I understand what feels emotionally right, instinctively. Working with actors has just come with experience.”
“There are things that I am passionate about, whether it's the season or just kind sort of what is necessary for culture. I like the idea that I can shape the culture in any shape or form that I can in whatever topic. But a lot of times, for me, it is about representing "the other," whoever "the other" is.”
“We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.”

Source : Benedetto Croce (1941). “History as the Story of Liberty”

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