"Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When to love something and when to quit. If you don't know how, you can end up out of control or controlled by some outside thing like that hard case last winter."

-- Toni Morrison

#Clever Quotes #Winter Quotes #Cities Quotes

“I'm interested in human vulnerability. We are alone, and my portraits reflect this quality. I don't want anything to get in the way of this feeling.”
“...But some of the ideas are ridiculous. Such as matching the hatch. Of course there are times when you have a fly as alike as possible to the flies on the water. But casting and accuracy and how you present your fly and how fast it gets there and how fast it swims are all more important than matching the hatch.”
“The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage - itâ€™s okay for clothes not that great for people”
“The one thing you don't want to be is a sucky clean comic. I hate sucky clean comics! It's like Christian rock, bro. I'd rather listen to gospel and Christian rock. That's cheating!”
“I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.”
“Word is a shadow of a deed.”
“It's great to admire other people's fashion choices, but I don't think you should idolise anyone.”
“I think art is the development of this interface between mind and matter, between mind and phenomenon, between what's inside of us and what's happening outside of us. It developed over the course of the last 35,000 years. We made a lot of improvements because it not only gave us the tools to understand the world better, but it also gave us better and better tools to do it. It's that continuous relationship: technology and discernment.”

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