"The new is not revealed to those whose eyse are fastened in worship upon the old."

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Source : "Albert P. Ryder: centenary exhibition; Oct. 18 to Nov. 30, 1947".

Albert Pinkham Ryder

#Worship Quotes

“I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.”
“Public opinion is a second conscience.”
“THE LUXE IS . . . Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn. Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions. White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups. This is Manhattan in 1899.”
“And, as my father used to tell me growing up, "Play it beautiful, play it beautiful." He said, "I don't care if you don't hit all of the notes. If you don't move a person's heart, it's not music."”
“Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that were offenses against any criteria of taste and decency, reels and reels of perversion and blasphemy that stunned my disbelieving eyes, the shocked my virginal mind, and sealed my valve.”
“Everyone is afraid of you and when folk are afraid of a person it usually means the person is cruel in some way, and I think you are cruel, Miss Marquess, but please donâ€™t punish me for saying it. I think you know youâ€™re cruel. I think you like being cruel. I think calling you cruel is the same as calling someone else kind. And I donâ€™t want to run errands for someone cruel.”
“And so the dentist says 'Rinse.' So you lean over, and you're lookin' at this miniature toilet bowl.”
“Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose.”

Source : Doris Grumbach (2014). “Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir”, p.39, Open Road Media

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