Quotes
Authors
Germaine Greer

"Great artists are products of their own time: they do not spring forth fully equipped from the head of Jove, but are formed by the circumstances acting upon them since birth. These circumstances include the ambiance created by the other, lesser artists of their own time, who have all done their part in creating the pressure that forces up an exceptional talent. Unjustly, but unavoidably, the very closeness of a great artist to his colleagues and contemporaries leads to their eclipse."

-- Germaine Greer

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“Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that weâ€™ll always have more to give.”
“You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.”

Source : Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.11, Pan Macmillan
“It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.”
“Time will make it worse! You're...the other half of his soul. He's never going to get over you. And no matter how much you hope that you will... you'll never get over him. You're going to wake up one day and realize what you've done, and you're going to regret the time you wasted apart from him for the rest of your life.”
“The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.”
“I am truly grateful that faith enables me to move past the question of 'Why?'”
“Of course, I'm aware of the animosities destroying brain cells on both sides, and I know all about the obstinacy of the warring parties, their refusal to reach an agreement, their devotion to their own murderous hatred....”

Source : Yasmina Khadra (2005). “The Attack”, Nan A. Talese
“We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.”

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