"Artists are a very important part of our society because they make a great contribution to our values. The artist creates a value system that we all grow up on, whether we know it or not."

-- Roy DeCarava

#Growing Up Quotes #Artist Quotes #Important Quotes

“I think itâ€™s time to open the books, on questions that have remained in the dark on the question of government investigations of UFOs, itâ€™s time to find out what the truth really is thatâ€™s out there. We ought to do it because itâ€™s right, we ought to do it because the American people, and people around the world quite frankly can handle the truth, and we ought to do it because itâ€™s the law.”
“You do not need to belong to the cat for a long time to realize the main thing that cats like to do is to wrap theirselves up in mystery, perhaps only except for a hobby of jumbling up everything that is in order. And if the cat can, and usually so, make a great mystery of where it was when you were searching for it even if a moment ago it was sitting by your side, do not have any doubts: its ancestors had a great pleasure to surround its origin by mystery.”
“As the musician straineth his strings, and yet he breaketh none of them, but maketh thereby a sweeter melody and better concord; so God, through affliction makes His own better unto the fruition and enjoying of the life to come.”
“You have to get serious about your practice!”
“In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower?”
“All I've undergone I will keep on.”
“in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.”

Source : Radclyffe Hall (2015). “The Well of Loneliness: The Classic of Lesbian Fiction”, p.394, Anchor
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