"The gaps between the forms worry me. I can never get these spaces right..."

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Source : John McEwen, Paula Rego (1992). “Paula Rego”

Paula Rego

#Space Quotes #Worry Quotes #Gaps Quotes

“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
“The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance”
“God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.”
“Never reduce a target. Instead, increase actions!”
“He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know.”
“As for 'story' I never yet did enjoy a novel or play in which someone didn't tell me afterward that there was something wrong with the story, so that's going to be no drawback as far as I'm concerned. "Good Lord, why am I so bored" "I know; it must be the plot developing harmoniously." So I often reply to myself, and there rises before me my special nightmare that of the writer as craftsman, natty and deft.”
“Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system”

Source : Giorgio Agamben (2008). “State of Exception”, p.2, University of Chicago Press
“Forgive a wife-slammer if you can. But you don't have to live with him. Forgive a husband who is abusing your children if you can. But only after you kick him out of the house. And if you can't get him out, get help. It's available. In the meantime, don't let him near the kids, and don't let anyone tell you that if you forgive him it means you have to stay with him. [There's an important difference between forgiving a person and tolerating their bad behavior.]”

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