"My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important"

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Dennis Eckersley

#Careers Quotes #Important Quotes #Eras Quotes

“One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.”

Source : Kirk Varnedoe, Jasper Johns (1996). “Jasper Johns: A Retrospective”
“Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined. Actually, every word has a great burden of memories, not only just of one person but of all mankind. Take a word such as bread, or war; take a word such as chair, or bed or Heaven. Behind every word is a whole world. I'm afraid that most people use words as something to throw away without sensing the burden that lies in a word.”
“Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.”
“Sex suppressed will go berserk, But it keeps us all alive. It's a wonderful change from wives and work And it ends at half past five.”

Source : 1966 'Office Friendships'.
“The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.”
“Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.”
“The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.”
“If we had the right words, if we had the language, we would need no weapons.”

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