"No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes."

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Source : Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.53, Northwestern University Press

Kathe Kollwitz

#Work Quotes #Cows Quotes #Way Quotes

“The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.”
“I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.”
“The most successful people in this world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot.”
“Being black and speaking properly are not mutually exclusive. My father was an African, and he spoke beautifully at home. Nelson Mandela speaks beautifully. Should Mandela put his hat on backwards and say, 'Yo, homey, this is Nelson. Yo, Winnie, yo, this is def'?”
“The bottle is where everything sad or mean or confusing can go. And the blues--it's like that bottle. But in the bottle there's a seed that you let grow. Even in the bottle it can grow big and green. It's full of all those feelings that are in there, but beautiful and growing too.”

Source : Heidi W. Durrow (2011). “The Girl Who Fell from the Sky”, p.166, Algonquin Books
“Two things people throughout history have had in common are hatred and humour. I am proud that I have been able to use humour to lessen people's hatred.”

Source : 2004 InThe Scotsman, 5 Jun.
“In a world of travail and cheap wine the ridiculous becomes sublime”

Source : Ben Sidran (2011). “A Life in the Music”, p.223, BookBaby
“It had been a humdrum couple of days, reaffirming his belief in reincarnation: everything was so boring that this could not be the first time he'd experienced it.”

Source : "Zone One". Book by Colson Whitehead, October 6, 2011.

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