"With your faults, dont hurry. Dont correct them thoughtlessly. What would you put in their place?"

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Source : Henri Michaux (1997). “Tent Posts”, Green Integer Books

Henri Michaux

“The safest genre is the horror film. But the most unsafe - the most dangerous - is comedy. Because even if your horror film isn't very good, you'll get a few screams and you're okay. With a comedy, if they don't laugh, you're dead.”
“The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean...”
“I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum.”
“The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, â€œthe Church which presides in charityâ€, is communion with the Orthodox Churches.”
“The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs.”
“I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it.”
“Let every man practice the art that he knows best.”
“Unless you're lead dog, the scenery never changes.”

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