"October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween."

-- Keith Donohue

#Halloween Quotes #Lasts Quotes #October Quotes

“The best thing a parent can do for a child is to love his or her spouse.”
“Perhaps the greatest mistake we can make, which causes loss of self-respect, is making the opinions of others more important than our own opinion of ourselves. You'll find no shortage of opinions directed at you. If you allow them to undermine your self-respect, you're seeking the respect of others over your own, and you're abdicating yourself.”
“There are not many places to go once you've killed someone like John Lennon.”
“Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.”
“On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.”
“Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.”

Source : Tom Holt (2008). “In Your Dreams”, p.91, Hachette UK
“When I showed â€˜Black and the Red IIIâ€™ in MalmÃ¶, Sweden, it was a continuum- a band- all around the galleryseeing this huge space in the gallery in MalmÃ¶, I just took a deep breath and I put the paper around in a single band. Then I continued along, printing on the wall like a trompe lâ€™oeil to reiterate the images in the work printed on paper that I had push-pinned to the wall. I literally took the rhythm and the images from â€˜Black and the Red IIIâ€™ and continued that on the wall.”
“If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future . . . and apply yourself to living the life that you are living-that is to say, the present-you can live all the time that remains to you until your death in calm, benevolence, and serenity.”

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