"There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so."

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Source : Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz (1973). “Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer”

Alfred Stieglitz

#Men Quotes #Done Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.”
“There's no grand excellence to it. In my experience it was just almost the gulaggy boringness of it that'll kill you. You're just in this murk. And you're with other humans, but you lose all your human skills and it's just like you're in this plastic bag and you can't quite connect with people. You lose your ability to transmit electricity or something, and to receive it.”
“While some are as loathe to trade a Bishop for a Knight as a Cadillac for a Chevrolet, others are prepared to do so without hesitation.”

Source : Larry Evans (1974). “How to Open a Chess Game”
“You love somebody, and then you don't love them anymore. But if you really love somebody, you always love them, don't you? Isn't there always some small part of you that reads their horoscope in the paper everyday?”
“In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.”
“If there's one thing I really love... it's sad music.”
“Victory is for those who can say "Victory is mine". Success is for those who can begin saying "I will succeed" and say "I have succeeded" in the end.”
“I play the radio and moon about...and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.”

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