"I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy."

-- James Joyce

#Unhappy Quotes #Bigs Quotes #Said Quotes

“One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.”
“One must be of one's time and paint what one sees.”

Source : "Edouard Manet: Symphony in off-white" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2011.
“Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.”
“I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition; They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins; They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God; Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things; Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago; Not one is responsible or industrious over the whole earth.”
“Great players make great plays.”
“We applied a very simple principle: Recognize the facts. Abortion is old as the world. Gay marriage, please - it's older than the world. We had Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, please. To say it's modern, come on, it's older than we are. It's an objective reality that it exists. For us, not legalizing it would be to torture people needlessly.”
“You don't go to Berkeley to become an actor. In fact, I don't think you go to any school to become an actor. You've just sort of got to go out there and act.”
“I'm beginning to realize that things don't turn out the way you want them to. And sometimes, when they don't they can turn out just a little bit better.”

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