"Every single courageous act of coming out chips away at the curse of homophobia. Most importantly it's destroyed within yourself, and that act creates the potential for its destruction where it exists in friends, family and society."

-- Anthony Venn-Brown

#Courageous Quotes #Destruction Quotes #Family Friends Quotes

“Happiness is attractive. Once you decide to be happy, you attract great things into your life.”
“Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.”
“It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice.”
“Beauty is the result of clarity and system and not of optical illusion.”
“Bernard [Leach] knew Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Terry Frost, Peter Lanyon, Johnny Wells. I can think of a number of people that we met there just because we were living with Bernard. Some of them became our friends, particularly the younger artists, but we were privileged to at least meet and talk with the older artists also. And they would come to dinner, and we would simply be included in the conversation, which was quite fascinating.”
“Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.”

Source : George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.135, MIT Press
“We, as producers, want to tell the best stories. We want to tell the stories that people will talk about.”
“Do It Under the Influence Yourself! That's what we're shooting for! Get drunk and make your dreams come true.”

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