"There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism."

-- Art Spiegelman

#Shapes Quotes #Stuff Quotes #Exorcism Quotes

“If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.”
“China is a long caravan, longer and stronger than the Wall.”

Source : Genevieve Taggard (1938). “Collected Poems: 1918-1938”
“O my Blessed God! let me climb up near to Him, and love, and long, and plead, and wrestle, and strech after Him, and for deliverence from the body of sin and death. Alas! my soul mourned to think i should ever lose sight of its Beloved again. O come, Lord Jesus, amen.”
“We begin to realize we are energy itself with all of its inherent possibilities.”
“Iâ€™ve lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said good-bye.”
“Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.”

Source : Sissela Bok (2011). “Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life”, p.55, Vintage
“If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing or you can look three people down and they love that song that you love. It is living proof that you are not alone.”
“To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.”

Source : "From Grandmother with Love". Book by Becky Kelly and Patrick Regan, 2005.

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