"Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome."

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Henry Fuseli

#Art Quotes #Egypt Quotes #Rome Quotes

“If you buy my book at Walmart, I don't want you to read it. I want you to set it on fire. Because that's what you just did with your money. When you buy a book through an indie-store, you put some money into an independent store and owner in your community. You've put some money into someone's life and someone's livelihood, into keeping the lights on, into helping them be alive. That's a great thing.”
“People love to talk, so let them have fun talking.”
“I assure you, Constable Morgan, I am quite sane, as I understand the word, perhaps the sanest person in this room, for I suffer from no illusions. I have freed myself, you see, from the pretense that burdens most men. Much like our prey, I do not impose order where there is none; I do not pretend there is any more than what there is, or that you and I are anything more than what we are. That is the essence of their beauty, Morgan, the aboriginal purity of their being, and why I admire them.”
“If the Court were to extend its reach to the base, judges could begin managing conditions of confinement, interrogation methods, and the use of information.”
“As our economy faces up to potential labour shortages due to our ageing population and as it moves to a new level of sophistication to compete with the rest of the world, we're going to need every Australian on board pulling their weight, rejoining the workforce, gaining new skills. Writing off individuals and communities suffering from poverty just creates a dead weight for our economy to drag along.”
“Shah Rukh is not my girlfriend that I should remember him. When I don't remember my past girlfriends, what will I remember Shah Rukh for?”
“I'm telling you lady I'm only human, not looking for impossibility. Just a genuine woman with sincerity.”
“I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise.”

Source : "Four Talks for Bibliophiles" by George Allen, (p. 70), 1958.

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