"A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line."

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Source : Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Robert Henri

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“Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.”
“Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.”
“My feeling about all films and all television is that it's an adventure. That's the way I have to look at it. Because you don't know what the climate of the circumstance is going to be. It could be very good. It could be very mediocre. It could be very bad. You don't know. But I've been doing it long enough now to know that it's an adventure. That's what it's all about.”

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“To my friends, Iâ€™m kind of sexually gay but ethnically straight,”
“There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.”
“In this role my wish is to build our understanding of what it means to protect the rights and human dignity of all Australians. Upholding human rights is about looking out for each other, taking the idea of fairness seriously. And it goes to the heart of who we are as a nation.”
“Every one is made of matter, and matter is continually going through a chemical change. This change is life, not wisdom, but life, like vegetable or mineral life. Every idea is matter, so of course it contains life in the name of something that can be changed. Motion, or change, is life. Ideas have life. A belief has life, or matter; for it can be changed. Now, all the aforesaid make up man; and all this can be changed.”
“Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”

Source : John Berendt (2010). “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”, p.62, Vintage

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