"Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination."

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Source : Geraldine Brooks (2006). “March”, p.106, Penguin

Geraldine Brooks

#Fear Quotes #Men Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example, ideal transformations of an entire wall and entire room.... There is no denying that one of the major attractions of these successful large compositions is their structural decorative use in the contemporary scene... That these large canvases can be superbly decorative may not be considered complimentary by some of the artists involved...”
“You've got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.”
“You have to promise you won't fall in love with me.”
“Una's face was an unbroken block of calculation, saving where, upon her upper lip, a little down of hair fluttered. Yet it gave one an uncanny feeling. It made one think of a tassel on a hammer.”
“Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail,”
“If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.”
“Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.”
“When you want to be honored by others, you learn to honor them first.”

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