"Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next."

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Source : Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Burger's Daughter”, p.127, Bloomsbury Publishing

Nadine Gordimer

#Next Quotes #Sentiments Quotes

“I think art is sublimated libido. You canâ€™t be a eunuch priest, and you canâ€™t be a eunuch artist.”
“It's not often you find yourself writing about a game that you haven't seen one kick of. But it's not often that the favourites lose 5-0 in one of their most important matches of the season. But all things considered - the difference between expectations of success and margin of victory, the fact of Strachan's debut, the injury to Chris Sutton, the joy it will bring Rangers fans, and the potential financial loss of going out of Europe completely in the first week in August - it is hard to remember the last defeat this bad for any team.”
“We really need the Internet to be that thing that we all dreamed of it being. We need it to connect us all together. We need it to introduce us to new ideas and new people and different perspectives. And it's not going to do that if it leaves us all isolated in a Web of one.”
“I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. Its not really possible to teach film direction, but I sit there as a sort of testimony of experience and know-how, I suppose.”
“Love! Beyond meaure - beyond death - it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.”
“I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.”

Source : Catherine Lampert, Richard Kendall, Euan Uglow (2007). “Euan Uglow: The Complete Paintings : Catalogue Raisonné”, p.38, Yale University Press
“Curiosity never killed this catâ€™ â€” thatâ€™s what Iâ€™d like as my epitaph”
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”

Source : FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”

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