"The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression."

-- Jacques Barzun

#Running Quotes #Expression Quotes #Mind Quotes

“One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.”
“The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.”
“One can know everything and still be unable to accept the fact that sex and murder are fused in the male consciousness, so that the one without the imminent possibly of the other is unthinkable and impossible.”
“Leadership is different from management, but not for the reasons most people think.”
“Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.”
“Sometimes I will portray the more normal-looking people as the monsters and then the more distorted - "uniquely formed" is the word I like to use, rather than monstrous - as the sympathetic characters in the painting. It's interesting because some people will get it right away, but a common reaction is to be a little off-put by it. And that is the whole idea. If it grabs somebody in a negative way, that's my intention.”

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“It's true that the gender pay gap is complicated. It's true that it is very slowly getting smaller. But that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It would have to be a pretty HUGE conspiracy for every reputable major news outlet to report on it annually if it was a massive feminist lie.”
“The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.”

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