"When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home."

-- Robert Duvall

#Home Quotes #Virginia Quotes #Hermits Quotes

“People joke about me that I talk in voiceovers. I have that sort of inflection. But I do talk in voiceovers. I have done it my whole life.”
“All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.”

Source : "Twenty-four Conversations with Borges, Including a Selection of Poems: Interviews by Roberto Alifano, 1981-1983". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1984.
“Next week, or next month, or next year I will kill myself. But I might as well last out my month's rent, which has been paid up ...”
“Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.”
“The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.”
“In the last analysis, home happiness depends on the wife. Her spirit gives the home its atmosphere. Her hands fashion its beauty. Her heart makes its love. And the end is so worthy, so noble, so divine, that no woman who has been called to be a wife, and has listened to the call, should consider any price too great to pay, to be the light, the joy, the blessing, the inspiration of a home.”
“The “Vasco da Gama's era” ends in a nightmare in which men-Westerners and non-Westerners alike-are bewildered by this confusion and the old fancy of the apprenti sorcier becomes tragically actual.”

Source : Carlo M. Cipolla (1966). “Guns, sails and empires: technological innovation and the early phases of European expansion, 1400-1700”
“There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.”

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