"All we have to face in the future is what has happened in the past. It is unbearable."

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Source : Maeve Brennan (1998). “The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Maeve Brennan

#Past Quotes #Faces Quotes #Unbearable Quotes

“My focus is first of all, to remove every thought of violence from my own consciousness.”
“Let water wash our bodies clean, and love wash our souls.”
“It is personal issues that makes me do what I do, for I have been raped more than 50 times by just listening to what women who have confessed and confirmed their love for other women have been through.”
“We can never totally return to the indefensible pre-1967 borders, ... We simply cannot afford to make Israel 14.48 km (9 miles) wide again at its center. We can't allow the Palestinians to be a couple of [miles] from [Tel Aviv's] Ben-Gurion Airport in the age of shoulder-fire missiles with the capacity to shoot down jumbo jets. But that doesn't mean we must remain in every corner of the West Bank or in Gaza, where fewer than 10,000 Jews, living next to 1.3 million Palestinians, have been protected by twice as many soldiers.”
“A lot of people that are always trying to be funny and "on" and performing are just hiding. It's just a cover for what they really are and how they really feel.”
“Damien Hirst's Mother and Child Divided (1993) is a work which can at first glance be read as nothing more than two brutally severed carcasses. "A freak show" was how the art critic of the Sunday Telegraph responded to its presentation in the Turner Prize in 1995. For me, the undoubted shock, even disgust provoked by the work is part of its appeal. Art should be transgressive. Life is not all sweet.”

Source : "Who's Afraid of Modern Art?". The Dimbleby Lecture, 2000.
“If your soul dances, your body follows”
“Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.”

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