"We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them."

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Source : Gertrude Atherton (1908). “The Californians”, p.127, Library of Alexandria

Gertrude Atherton

#People Quotes #Care Quotes

“Never abandon your dreams. You may regret it for the rest of your life.”
“I would like to like to make one thing clear at the very outset and that is, when you speak of a train robbery, this involved no loss of train, merely what I like to call the contents of the train, which were pilfered. We haven't lost a train since 1946, I believe it was - the year of the great snows when we mislaid a small one.”

Source : Peter Cook, William Cook (2013). “Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Comedy of Peter Cook”, p.53, Random House
“In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.”
“I find it impossible to think of a picture save as a window, and my first concern about a window is to find out what it looks out on... and there is nothing I love so much as something which stretches away from me out of sight.”
“I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.”
“The truth is always simpler than you can imagine.”
“There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.”
“It would be a sad error in judgement to mistake me for a corpse.”

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