"In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface."

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Source : Joseph Brodsky (2011). “On Grief And Reason: Essays”, p.115, Penguin UK

Joseph Brodsky

#Surface Quotes #Faster Quotes #Bottom Quotes

“The people who are rising, they're super ambitious. They have relationships with people above them. They have relationships, hierarchical, sort of people below them. A lot of people do not have relationships horizontally. And there's a lot of people who reach high political offices, but who are weirdly lonely, weirdly lacking in intimacy skills.”
“Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.”
“For me, darkness is something very beautiful,”

Source : "Riccardo Tisci: Designer of the Year 2012" by Molly Young, www.gq.com. November 29, 2012.
“Stanley Kubrick was a big inspiration. People accuse me of never using my own material. But when did Kubrick? You look at his films and they are completely unique... completely separate entities.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America.”
“In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.”
“Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our nation to this land, [and] the needs of our national security, which demand a capability to defend our State and the lives of our citizens.”

Source : "Iron Wall". Book by Lenni Brenner, 1984.
“The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parentâ€™s heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.”

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