"How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language."

-- Jim Harrison

#Language Quotes #Compromise Quotes #Wonderful Quotes

“Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.”
“My goal is to get people thinking and trying to wrap their heads around the amazing things that have been achieved and to dream about what will be achieved.”
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
“When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility.”
“Why does it raise eyebrows when a woman uses cuss words?”
“In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard as one would speak of a brave anarchist. The Arabian epoch-the Arabs look down on the Turks as they do on dogs-was the most cultured, the most intellectual and in every way best and happiest epoch in Spanish history. It was followed by the period of the persecutions with its unceasing atrocities.”
“At home we didnt talk about religion. So gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I was nineteen my father died; my response to his death was atheistic.”
“Maybe Iâ€™m just farsighted. The further away something is, the better I can see it but once it gets close, I lose sight of it.”

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