"that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks"

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Source : Jim Fergus (2010). “One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd”, p.162, Macmillan

Jim Fergus

#Thinking Quotes #Reflection Quotes #White Quotes

“Death is just where your suit falls off and now you're in your other suit. You can't see it on this level, but it's all right. Don't worry.”
“The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fairy tale creatures, which suddenly flew away over the roof, so that one was at one with the firmament.”

Source : "Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 - 1922" edited by Christoph Vitali, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, exhibition catalogue (p. 41), 1991.
“I'm hoping that word-of-mouth on the film - people seeing it and liking it - that that will drive more people to the theaters, because I haven't seen the billboards or the posters or anything.”

Source : Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. June 2002.
“I think that the internet is a beast of burden.”

Source : Source: killingthecabinet.com
“I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.”
“I think that when one is dead one should be a little bit bolder, so that the rest of us may have some record of how things actually were.”
“The painting is always done very much with [the model's] co-operation. The problem with painting a nude, of course, is that it deepens the transaction. You can scrap a painting of someone's face and it imperils the sitter's self-esteem less than scrapping a painting of the whole naked body.”
“An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him.”

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