"History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that."

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Robert Penn Warren

#History Quotes #Melodrama Quotes

“You get to have some mischief before you're basically a blackened banana, impotent, and nothing to be afraid of.”
“I am concerned that Donald Trump walks into the White House a walking conflict of interest in violation of the emoluments clause of the constitution, and the Stock Act. It is important to investigate whether there are financial levers, not just Russia - China, the Emirates. Because he will never make America great again - I don't believe he ever will, but he will not do so if he's beholden to.”
“The picture must be... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need.”

Source : Mark Rothko (1997). “Mark Rothko”, Stewart Tabori & Chang
“No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.”
“When I'm recording, which is synonymous with writing, I'll play things over and over again until it sounds like I've got the right guitar part. Whereas I think, as the much younger player I tended to do things much more consciously. I didn't wait for the moment where inspiration might strike. That's what I do now. I wait for it to naturally start to replay itself in my mind. As I say, I don't force it. So I like to think of myself as a receiver. I'm a telephone line to who knows where, but until I hear it through that receiver, I don't usually do it. It's got to start writing itself somehow.”
“You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you”
“Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.”
“We got on a moving train there. That's more of a financing arrangement on that [Dracula] film. It would be disingenuous to say we're producing it. So it was really about getting into business with our partner at Universal.”

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