Quotes
Authors
Eugene Delacroix

"Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the most flagrant blunders. Entire schools have been founded on misinterpretations of certain aspects of the masters. Lamentable mistakes have resulted from the thoughtless enthusiasm with which men have sought inspiration from the worst qualities of remarkable artists because they are unable to reproduce the sublime elements in their work."

-- Eugene Delacroix

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“Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.”

Source : "Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas". Book by Michka Assayas, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2006.
“I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back.”

Source : Mary Stewart (2011). “Stormy Petrel”, p.56, Hachette UK
“I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued by an oil-rig diver, a great bear of a man who simply leant into the water and scooped me out with one finger.”
“I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible.”
“A lot of movements use women's involvement to shame men when recruitment is sagging.”
“Long distance running is 90% mental and the other half is physical.”
“It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading various Christian writings.”
“Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. People lie when you ask them what they eat when they are alone. A salad, they tell you. But when you persist, they confess to peanut butter and bacon sandwiches deep fried and eaten with hot sauce, or spaghetti with butter and grape jam.”

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