"For me there was never a lot of glamor involved in being a junkie, it was about trying to hide the puke and bloodstains on my shirt."

-- Jerry Stahl

#Trying Quotes #Shirts Quotes #Junkie Quotes

“From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology.”
“Some men enjoy the constant strife Of days with work and worry rife, But that is not my dream of life: I think such men are crazy. For me, a life with worries few, A job of nothing much to do, Just pelf enough to see me through: I fear that I am lazy.”
“In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.”

Source : Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: The Man and His Beliefs”
“That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.”

Source : Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.47, New York Review of Books
“Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good to me?”
“I wanted to kick Bruce in the taint. No one is just one thing. Many things contribute to the whole of a person, and just because vodka accounts for 50 percent of my body weight, that doesn't mean I walk around with a vodka drip, forcing every plant, person, or animal to imbibe. I've always had a disliking for animal trainers, and this guy cemented my theory that people who chaperone animals for a living have never had a girl sit on their face.”
“I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.”

Source : Milton Avery, Ruth Fine, M. Knoedler & Co (2007). “Magical means: Milton Avery and watercolor”
“Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our militant movement was established.”

Source : Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.32, 谷月社

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