"There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled"

-- Beryl Bainbridge

#Loss Quotes #People Quotes #Income Quotes

“Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.”
“It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.”

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“Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed.”
“I think all kids feel that their lives are tough, and that they've, been given an unfair shake for one reason or another. So I think there's a lot of kids who relate to my story. They also relate to the fact that I got out of it. And I tell them that my refuge from all that was books - the library was my safe place. And the art room was my safe place because there I knew what I was doing.”

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“Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.”
“Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.”
“I went to an all-girls pre school where everyone went off to Harvard or Yale, and I had zero interest in doing so. I think they thought I was on drugs. There was a neighboring all-boys school, so we'd get together and do dumb things. It was your typical Catholic-American upbringing.”
“We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.”

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