"Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem."

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Photograph Quotes #Lost Quotes

“We should praise, rather, the courage of the player who, relying only on his intuition, plunges into a brilliant combination of which the issue does not appear to him too clear.”

Source : Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (2013). “The Art of Chess Combination”, p.197, Courier Corporation
“Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.”
“Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or holding urine in one's mouth, or having the racket of a bulldozer in one's ear for an hour or two on end.”
“My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.”
“Architecture arises out of our need to shelter the human animal in a spatial environment and to enclose the social animal in a group space. In this sense architecture serves our institutions and expresses the values of our culture.”
“Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.”

Source : "A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgaard - review" by Stuart Evers, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2013.
“My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.”
“But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human.”

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