"I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment."

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Roberto Matta

#Astonishment Quotes

“You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.”
“In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.”
“I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean?”
“Real power comes by empowering others.”
“Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.”
“The court has had to take a hard look at our resources and make difficult decisions balancing competing demands for resources. While our current allocation of resources to the Twin Peaks Court may not be ideal, it is an appropriate allocation when all factors are considered. While I realize this will be disappointing news to you, I can assure you the matter was given serious thought before a decision was made.”
“No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic”
“Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world.”

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