"Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had"

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Source : Raymond Chandler (2014). “The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words”, p.283, Vintage

Raymond Chandler

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“I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.”
“Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter 'repented', changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.”

Source : Lillian Hellman, Jackson R. Bryer (1986). “Conversations with Lillian Hellman”, p.138, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.”

Source : "'Gossip Girl' Creator Reveals Reality of 'Young Adult'" by Cecily von Ziegesar, www.mtv.com. December 12, 2011.
“Ed Balls is like a drunk trying to drink his way out of alcoholism.”
“Women had to work like slaves in the art world, but a lot of men got to the top through their charm. And it hurt them. To be young and pretty didn't help a woman in the art world, because the social scene, and the buying scene, was in the hands of women â€“ women who had money. They wanted male artists who would come alone and be their charming guests. Rothko could be very charming. It was a court. And the artist buffoons came to the court to entertain, to charm. Now it has changed, now the younger men are in â€“ older women and younger men.”
“It is not whether you win or lose, but who gets the blame.”
“Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentrationâ€¦ tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils”
“My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in pre-Baconian fashion, without any adequate experimental guidance.”

Source : "God (or Not), Physics and, of Course, Love: Scientists Take a Leap". www.nytimes.com. January 4, 2005.

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