"Without great solitude no serious work is possible."

--

Pablo Picasso

#Being Alone Quotes #Solitude Quotes #Serious Quotes

“More than a needed biography of Ehrenburg . . . Tangled Loyalties is a contribution of much significance to our understanding of the history of Russia in Stalin's time and of her relations with the West.”
“I want to bring passengers on my airplanes to present to them my product.”
“The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call capitalist, should have lived as if in a bell jar, cut off from the rest; why was it not able to expand and conquer the whole of society?... [Why was it that] a significant rate of capital formation was possible only in certain sectors and not in the whole market economy of the time?”

Source : Fernand Braudel (1982). “Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The wheels of commerce”, p.248, Univ of California Press
“You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.”
“People like to focus on a narrow stereotype, like if we didn't have football then we wouldn't have made it, ... The reality is, there are a lot of football players like me who came out of the middle class.”
“What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ...No, another social outcast!”
“Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.”
“We are commanded to have only one enemy, the devil. With him never be reconciled! But with a brother, never be at enmity in thy heart.”

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