"Self-pity is, perhaps, the least becoming of all emotions, and we often indulge in it only beause we are too exhausted to resist."

-- Ivy Baker Priest

#Self Quotes #Becoming Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.”

Source : Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)
“Every story is flawed, every story is subject to change. Even after it is set down to print, between covers of a book, a story is not immune to alteration. People can go on telling it in their own way, remembering it the way they want. And in each telling the ending may change, or even the beginning. Inevitably, in some cases it will be worse, and in others it just might be better. A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening.”
“God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.”
“It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense of itself, which has no subject, which means absolutely nothing from the logical point of view... should speak so strongly in us... that we feel compelled to paint...”

Source : "Letters of the great artists - from Ghiberti to Gainsborough" by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, (p. 232), 1963.
“They see her differently now, as somebody. And isn't that what everyone wants? To be seen?”
“Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.”

Source : Thomas Couture (1879). “Conversations on Art Methods”
“To me, the nicest luxury would be to have a room where I could keep all my books in one place - and have space for more.”
“For over a half century now I've watched office obesity develop into a full-blown, crippling disease. As our office clutter mounts, we're ever more intimidated and frustrated by it. We engineer drainage and removal of water and liquid wastes from society to prevent hazardous buildup, but the effluent that pours into our offices-paper-is never flushed out.”

Source : Don Aslett (2004). “The Office Clutter Cure”, p.2, Adams Media

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