"If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime."

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Source : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

James G. Frazer

#Wise Quotes #Long Quotes #Crime Quotes

“...it can be so boring being you sometimes, and if you were the most special thing like that, it could be really great, but maybe some people say the same thing about you, and you want to tell those people: 'No, you're stupid, it's no fun being me.”
“I'm really focused and committed to teaching now. Maybe when I'm about 30, which is in 10 years, I would like to consider doing something like speech therapy. That's what I really would like to do. I could go and do that now but it's not my drive at the moment. My drive is acting right now.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“I talk too much. I eat too much.”
“Serbia is blamed in advance for everything.”
“The pain pushes you, until the vision pulls you”
“When I'm not working I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible.”
“I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they... find on the canvas. If you pin them down, they always end up asserting that there is something there besides the paint on the canvas. My painting is based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there... What you see is what you get.”

Source : "Questions to Stella and Judd". Interview with Bruce Glaser, www.artnews.com. September 1966.
“We never remember days, only moments.”

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