"The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery."

-- Ernest Renan

#Epic Quotes #Age Quotes #Heroism Quotes

“I know nothing at all about music.”
“Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.”
“The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.”
“You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.”

Source : Cornelius Vanderbilt (1956). “Queen of the Golden Age: the fabulous story of Grace Wilson Vanderbilt”
“Over the past three years, we'd become each other's habit. And though he'd broken his habit of me when he walked away, I'd not broken my habit of him.”
“The Palestinian state is within our grasp. Soon the Palestinian flag will fly on the walls, the minarets and the cathedrals of Jerusalem.”
“The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.”

Source : Allan Sekula (1984). “Photography against the grain: essays and photo works, 1973-1983”
“I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment.”

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