"Iâ€™m not going to kill you, Nora. I donâ€™t kill people who are important to me. And you top the list."

-- Becca Fitzpatrick

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“To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.”

Source : Thomas Traherne (2007). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.276, Cosimo, Inc.
“In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.”
“Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding palate make his moral choices, that is gluttony. When he ascribes the divine will to his own whims, that is pride. And when he gets angry at being reminded of animal suffering that his own daily choices might help avoid, that is moral cowardice.”
“Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I don't keep from despairing. I let myself despair. I just don't linger there for too long. There's too much to laugh about, two knuckleheads I have to feed, and a lot of really excellent television to watch. I think the mess we're in deserves the full range of human feeling, from despair to its opposite, which I would say is not hope, happiness, or peace, but freedom.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius.”
“We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece.”
“(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.”

Source : "Disgrace". Book by J. M. Coetzee, 2000.

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