"How terribly hard and almost impossible it is to tell the truth. More than anything else, the artist in us prevents us from telling aught as it really happened. We deal with the truth as the cook deals with meat and vegetables."

-- Eric Hoffer

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“When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.”
“somewhere within sight of the tree of poetry that is eternity wearing the green leaves of time .”

Source : R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.423, Hachette UK
“I'd rather let the music speak for itself.”
“Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.”
“If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do not try to force it to be a picture of this, that or the other thing. Stand apart from it. Then something will happen. The subject will reveal itself.”

Source : Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company
“I donâ€™t know if Barcelona have ever gone to a place like the Britannia Stadium and suffered the kind of onslaught from Tony Pulisâ€™ team of long throws and free-kicks or been up to a place like Blackburn and been beaten up by their long ball into the box.”
“I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely.”
“Cars aren't merely modes of transit or material possessions to Texans; they are something of a state treasure. We share a special, almost religious attachment to the automobile, rooted, I suppose, in our mythological relationship to the horse, our economic underpinnings in the oil industry, and the inescapable fact that to get anywhere in this state, you have to cover a lot of ground.”

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