"A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument."

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Source : Chauncey Mitchell DePew (2005). “My Memories of Eighty Years”, p.318, Cosimo, Inc.

Chauncey Depew

#Witty Quotes #Illustration Quotes #Stories Quotes

“A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand to lead them to that world.”
“The eye identifies itself not with the body it belongs to but with the object of its attention.”
“I very rarely use a credit card, but I do if I know I have big bills coming and I need to stagger payment.”
“Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.”
“I just do art because Iâ€™m ugly and thereâ€™s nothing else for me to do.”
“It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.”
“He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed...”

Source : T. E. Lawrence (2015). “Lawrence of Arabia: The Man Behind the Myth (Complete Autobiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters): Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Memoirs of the Arab Revolt) + The Evolution of a Revolt + The Mint (Memoirs of the secret service in Royal Air Force) + Collected Letters (1915-1935)”, p.513, e-artnow
“You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!”

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