"An artist must either give up art or develop."

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Source : pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

Pauline Kael

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“I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementarily adjusted, their blue eyes blinking open on a single thought of when I shall remember it's their supper time. They might have been composed by Bach for two flutes.”
“Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.27, Vintage
“I have been singing as long as I can remember. I used to be in choir; I used to do musical theater. I'd prefer not to sing my own songs, but there you have it.”
“With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.”
“I didn't want murder. It's all gone wrong.”
“Anything is possible, and thatâ€™s something we should not lose sight of. The inspiration and the permission to dream is huge.”
“My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.”
“It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land, respects these very things about Indian traditions, without adopting those respected ways themselves.”

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