"An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own portrait has almost always also developed an ego-consciousness which paints himself painting himself, and introduces artificial highlights and dramatic shadows."

-- W. H. Auden

#Men Quotes #Self Quotes #Ego Quotes

“If you don't have a place to live or money or whatever, you ask yourself, "What am I gonna do?" But my best friend stuck by me for 30 years. And he had already told me "Whenever you get out, you come live with me and my wife."”

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“Action isnâ€™t my forte. Iâ€™m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.”
“What we have seen in the way of adaptation and adjustment seems to indicate that families are adjusting parenting to the world ofwork, rather than the labor markets and industries responding to the parenting and family needs of their employees.”
“A French friend brought over a load of Gainsbourg vinyl and I worked my way through it: by the time I got to L'Histoire De Melody Nelson (1969) I was thinking, 'How can this man have died before I got to know his music?' I was a convert.”
“We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.”
“As a quarterback, can you throw it where you are looking?”
“It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.”
“Thought before word. Never word before thought.”

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