"I have two things going for me. The first is the fidelity to my principles, and the other is my ability to show up for the fight every day. Period that."

-- Ron Dellums

#Fighting Quotes #Two Quotes #Principles Quotes

“I was really relieved not to have to drag something in front of the camera; I could use a pencil and paper. A regular pencil and typing paper. That appealed to me.”

Source : Joan Simon, William Wegman (2006). “William Wegman: Funney/strange”, p.105, Yale University Press
“And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.”
“We could do it, you know.”
“My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.”

Source : The Nigger of the Narcissus preface (1897)
“Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure.”
“The villain's censure is extorted praise.”
“I think it's important for the viewers at home to have something accessible and attainable.”
“To me, the circle and the square where the sky and the earth, as symbolized by the ancient Oriental religions; they formed a kind of rudimentary alphabet by means of which everything could be expressed with the most limited means. They evoked prehistoric runes and the early I-Ching, or Book of Changes.”

Source : "Abstract Painting". Book by Michel Seuphor, Dell Publishing Co., p. 98, 1964.

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