"I just realized that I never look at a painting and ask, 'Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?' Itâ€™s just a painting."

-- Scott McClanahan

#Looks Quotes #Painting Quotes #Just Realized Quotes

“No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.”
“They wanted to buy out my contract, but I couldn't make change for a $20, so they had to let me stay.”
“Every day we're given a choice: We can relax and float in the direction that the water flows, or we can swim hard against it. If we go with the river, the energy of a thousand mountain streams will be with us . . . if we resist the river, we will feel rankled and tired as we tread water, stuck in the same place.”

Source : Elizabeth Lesser (2010). “Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow”, p.270, Random House
“It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.”

Source : Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.100, Read Books Ltd
“Don't make the mistake of bringing your heart down here with you, there is no place for it in Furnace.”

Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.48, Faber & Faber
“I'd never really babysat. I feel like I'm Blair, or 'Gossip Girl.' A teenager, basically - and now suddenly I'm a mom?”
“The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.”
“I don't really need to be inspired by literature though. At the end of the day it's colour and imagery moved around until it works.”

Source : "Wild Horses, William Burroughs And White Cake With Danny Fox". Interview With Christiana Spens, thequietus.com. September 22, 2013.

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