"Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission?"

-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Men Quotes #Joy Quotes #Doe Quotes

“And," Price adds, smiling, "if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set the maitre d' on fire. So you know, warn him.”
“The typical WW1 soldier was not an intellectual like Ernst JÃ¼nger or Wilfred Owen, but was a peasant draftee from Galicia or Bavaria or Sicily, with all the traditional religious ideas. The hothouse atmosphere of war brought everyone into a supernatural-oriented universe of ghosts and apparitions.”
“Despite rumors to the contrary, a mime is actually a very satisfying thing to waste.”
“Donâ€™t start a business. Find a problem, Solve a problem, The business comes second.”
“An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.”
“That's emails for ya: sometimes they're like an arrow that hits so deep in the target, you can't pull it out.”
“There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.”
“Photography as a subject is a good one. Its history is only about 150 years... You only have to know about twenty-five or thirty names and that's it. All you need. In painting there are more than 1,000.”

Source : Joan Simon, William Wegman (2006). “William Wegman: Funney/strange”, p.210, Yale University Press

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