"The only real influence I've ever had was myself."

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Source : Ita G. Berkow, Edward Hopper (1996). “Edward Hopper: An American Master”, Smithmark Publishers

Edward Hopper

#Real Quotes #Influence Quotes

“I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.”
“I try to get to know the actors as much as I can. I feel like I'm friends with them for starters and for a week or two, we rehearse when they're getting the costumes together.”
“Time is the only commodity that matters.”
“Your greatest achievement is to love me.”
“All the successful people I knew in life had high self-esteem and all the losers had low self-esteem.”
“I was born to give the white man hell, and I will give him hell from the cradle to the grave,”

Source : "Nation of Islam Associate: Ex-Official Dies After Suffering Hemorrhage". www.beliefnet.com.
“Voltaire remarked that it is possible to kill a flock of sheep by witchcraft if you give them plenty of arsenic at the same time. The sheep, in this figure, may well stand for the complacent apologists of capitalism; Marx's penetrating insight and bitter hatred of oppression supply the arsenic, while the labour theory of value provides the incantations.”

Source : Joan Robinson (1967). “Essay on Marxian Economics”, p.22, Springer
“Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy ...”

Source : Winifred Holtby (2011). “South Riding”, p.164, Random House

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