"A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple."

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Source : Marsden Hartley (2011). “Adventures in the Arts”, p.3, Hol Art Books

Marsden Hartley

#Simple Quotes #Reactions Quotes #Pleasant Quotes

“In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.”
“A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.”
“So how can you tell me you're lonely, and say for you that the sun don't shine? Let me take you by the hand, and lead you through the streets of London. I'll show you something to make you change your mind.”

Source : Song: Streets Of London
“It feels humiliating to be in a band where you have to be apologizing for one person all the time,”
“I can't say that I've fully achieved my dream yet. I'm just starting to evolve.”
“How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but common air, in competition of an hypothesis.”
“For the poets, my hope is that they will, quite simply, feel the obligation to be really informed about the situation in which we find ourselves, in terms of our imperiled planet. You should inform yourself so deeply that it becomes part of your nature, part of your voice.”

Source : Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.
“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.”

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