"When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Perfect Quotes #Plot Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Taste is, in general, considered as that faculty of the human mind by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is beautiful or sublime in the works of nature or art.”
“But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.”

Source : Gerrit Smith (1856). “Speeches of Gerrit Smith in Congress”, p.22
“If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I can't date women my own age any more - I hate going to cemeteries.”
“I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits,”

Source : "The Prologue" l. 25 (1650)
“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”
“Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.”
“I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.”

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