"I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold."

-- John Dyer

#Four Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Painting Quotes

“For the most part, we should pray rather in aspiration than petition, rather by hoping than requesting; in which spirit also we may breathe a devout wish for a blessing on others upon occasions when it might be presumptuous to beg it.”
“It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.”
“Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.”
“Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.”
“The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”
“The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act of the whole people, the adoption of the Constitution was the merest farce and imposture, binding upon nobody.”
“For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth”
“One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face of a character.”

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