"Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back."

-- Mignon McLaughlin

#Family Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Bitterness Quotes

“Live a "Why not?" life, man. Take the shot. The shot is always worth taking.”
“It's my job for Oracle, the number two software company in the world; to become the number one software company in the world. My job is to build better than the competition, sell those products in the marketplace and eventually supplant Microsoft and move from being number two to number one.”
“To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.”
“A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. Just to make it was like a dream to me.”
“I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of compulsion to read on, then everything is probably going to be just fine.”

Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility”, p.98, Hachette UK
“Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.”

Source : Ali Smith (2014). “How to be Both”, p.253, Penguin UK
“Rich with the spoils of time.”
“What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it were, to his body, he is bound to act violently, extending his vocabulary with a weapon where there should have been an adjective.”

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