"I'm an escapist kind of writer."

-- Maeve Binchy

#Kind Quotes #Escapists Quotes

“Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.”
“it's a reminder of one of the greatest lessons of all: live as if you'll live forever, but live each day as if it were your last.”
“Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts.”

Source : Fernand Léger, Katharine Kuh (1953). “Léger: Catalogue of Th Exhibition Organized by the Art Institute of Chicago in Collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the San Francisco Museum of Art”
“People do not care to give alms without some security for their money; and a wooden leg or a withered arm is a sort of draft upon heaven for those who choose to have their money placed to account there.”

Source : Henry Mackenzie (1820). “The man of feeling: and Julia de Roubigné, a tale”, p.18
“I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name and apparently that's the key to the whole thing right there. I go in every few weeks and guess.”
“I'm not disparaging suicides when I call them weak, I'm pointing out that anybody who would consider doing a thing like that needs help. I don't think a normal, mentally healthy person commits suicide.”
“These are extremely talented actors who are all putting their talents into the Lost in Space movie.”
“I worship nothing. Not a good lie nor a dark one. If nature is proof of God's amazing creation then I have truly seen the light, and the light is black. Nature is genius at its most cruel and savage. No benevolent God could have come up with such an outrage.”

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