"I like making images that from a distance seem kind of seductive, colorful, luscious and engaging, and then you realize what you're looking at is something totally opposite. It seems boring to me to pursue the typical idea of beauty, because that is the easiest and the most obvious way to see the world. It's more challenging to look at the other side."

-- Cindy Sherman

#Distance Quotes #Opposites Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“The gods hate unjust men.”
“There is no better love potion than a coffee. When a man drinks the coffee made by you he will become forever yours.”
“We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.”
“Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented ...”

Source : Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.79, Ardent Media
“At the same time, you had Barack Obama as a president. You had Hillary Clinton on track, all the Democrats looking good. And, you know, Donald Trump was just an entertaining buffoon to watch. And, over time, you came to realize that Donald Trump was appealing to a lot of people with his populist message. And, slowly, I think, even as a show, we started shifting in tone as the election started shifting.”
“I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.”
“The only true conqueror who shall be crowned in the end is he who continues until war's trumpet is blown no more.... Christian, wear your shield close to your armor and cry earnestly to God, that by His Spirit you may endure to the end.”
“Because of an instability at my own core, it comforts me to live, fixed, within a story. If reading is our consolation for having been allotted only one life, I find that writing oneself into a fictional world is even more comforting.”

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