"The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret,"

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Source : Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.132, Anchor

Andrew Davidson

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“I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.”
“We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.”

Source : A. G. Sertillanges (1987). “The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods”, p.213, CUA Press
“I'm too conceited for therapy.”
“A lot of the challenge and the reason for the success of those one-shot photographers is that their pictures almost have to be subject proof. Because you usually only have a few minutes with the person. You never know who's going to walk into the room - whether they're going to be friendly, grumpy, sick of photographers, or between meetings.”

Source : Source: aphotoeditor.com
“The great question of all choosers and adventurers is 'Was it worth while?' - and whatever else you may expect of life, don't expect an answer to that.”

Source : Sheila Kaye-Smith (1923). “The Challenge to Sirius”
“In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.”
“it is possible to wish so greatly for the unattained that in time you believe it has been won - indeed, you can even remember the winning of it ...”
“The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind of Zionist who pays another man to live in Israel for him. I have nothing but contempt for such people.”

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