"We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws."

-- Rose Macaulay

#Sister Quotes #Brother Quotes #Sibling Quotes

“In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.”
“I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.”
“If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin.”
“My career started slowly and then tapered off.”
“Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arcâ€”where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme.”
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
“I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.”
“I wonder if this is how is is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likable as good men.”

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