"Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish."

-- Balthus

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“I love all the old pictures - of spanking and Bettie Page and corsets. But you can't do spanking in fashion, so I wanted to do a project where I could really let go and get girls who also love those things.”
“The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.”
“In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose where enthusiasm is conveyed by word choice and grammar.”
“Those who would practice magic must be scrupulously honest in their personal lives. In one sense, magic works on the principle that 'it is so because I say it is so.' For words to take on such force, you must be deeply and completely convinced that it is identified with truth as you know it. To a person who practices honesty and keeps commitments, 'As I will, so mote it be' is not just a pretty phrase; it is a statement of fact.”
“Make peace with guilt. Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kris Carr from Mar 21, 2013
“A natural environment is far more complex than any playing field.”
“Which ever one of you will want to become a journalist, let him remember to choose his own master: the reader.”

Source : From a lecture of journalism at the University of Turin, "La Stampa" Newspaper, April 14, 2009.
“You can run,â€ Dorian said in a neutral tone that did nothing to lessen the intensity of his expression, â€œbut sooner or later, you run out of places to run to.”

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