"Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone."

-- Henri Matisse

#Quiet Quotes #Paint Quotes #Starting Quotes

“A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.”

Source : "A man said to the universe" l. 1 (1899)
“When I began doing stand-up, it took me a long time to get an hour's worth of material together.”
“A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.”
“The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog-undervalued and undermined-even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that it is time for contemporary fairy tales to be celebrated in a popular, literary collection. Fairy tales hold the secret to reading.”

Source : "My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me". Anthology, September 28, 2010.
“The interesting point is that the polarization is not so much among the public, although there's some of that. The polarization on the immigration issue is really between the elites and the public. In other words, this is not so much a right-left issue, which it is partly.”

Source : "A Closer Look At Obama Administration's Controversial Deportation Plans". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.
“I'm pleased the administration is endorsing the need for legislation dealing with the chemical sector. In the past, the administration's position has been ambiguous.”
“Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.”
“If you'd put it in a Powerpoint deck don't put it in your ad”

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