"If on a friendâ€™s bookshelf You cannot find Joyce or Sterne Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton, You are in danger, face the fact, So kick him first or punch him hard And from him hide behind a curtain."

-- Alexander Theroux

#Faces Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Facts Quotes

“When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didnâ€™t know if this was empathy or theft.”

Source : Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.20, Granta Books
“People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.”
“The coming to consciousness is not a discovery of some new thing; it is a long and painful return to that which has always been.”

Source : Helen M. Luke (1975). “Dark wood to white rose: a study of meanings in Dante's Divine comedy”
“Infringing upon (or encroaching) the right of a single person, we overthrow (or turn upside down) the whole order on which rest legal agreements; for if we break (or transgress or violate) the undertakings enter unto ("les engagements contractÃ©s", Fr.), nothing assure that we will not break them, possibly ("Ã©ventuellement", Fr.) in another.”
“These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.”
“Chicago's downtown seems to me to constitute, all in all, the best-looking twentieth-century city, the city where contemporary technique has best been matched by artistry, intelligence, and comparatively moderated greed. No doubt about it, if style were the one gauge, Chicago would be among the greatest of all the cities of the world.”

Source : Jan Morris (1993). “Locations”, Oxford University Press, USA
“If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment he uses.”

Source : Margaret Bourke-White (2016). “Portrait of Myself”, p.304, Pickle Partners Publishing
“Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.”

Source : Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works. A New Ed”, p.229

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