"Aiming at brevity, I become obscure."

-- Horace

#Obscure Quotes #Brevity Quotes

“Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.”
“Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.”

Source : Wilkie Collins (1873). “The Woman in White: A Novel”, p.228
“That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.”

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“But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there is an enormous breaker that knocks me down. Sometimes there is a sudden and fierce squall. But I know that many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.”
“Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream.”

Source : Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.70, Penguin
“When I do a film that has nothing to do with Kurt Weill, then I am happy, I am on my own. But in a Kurt Weill work I am as nervous as a cat. A burden falls on my shoulders. I feel a crushing responsibility.”
“Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.”
“I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.”

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