"But no longer could I aks God what to do, since the answer, I was sure, would not suit me. I could do what suited me know, as long as I could pay for it. 'As long as I could pay for it.' That phrase soon became the tail that wagged my dog. If I had died then, it should have been my epigraph."

-- Jamaica Kincaid

#Dog Quotes #Long Quotes #Tails Quotes

“Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.”
“If you laugh, you think, and you cry, thatâ€™s a full day.”

Source : Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993
“People have to want to change before there's any chance of helping them do so.”
“If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.”
“Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.”

Source : Walter Sickert, Anna Gruetzner Robins (2003). “Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art”, p.276, Oxford University Press on Demand
“Mine is a quiet exploration—a quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor and struggling people, it is a great joy to paint.”
“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.”
“Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.”

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