"Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not at the mercy of appearances, is not yet in conflict with them."

-- Andre Malraux

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“If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase our misfortunes and make them permanent.”
“An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't matter if the book gets published and lots of people get to read it, or if you make just one copy and you share that book with one friend.”
“It needs to be said that sometimes my mom forgets important details when she talks. Like the time she told us she was considering leather (couches, it turns out), or when I was little and she said, "Here's a napkin to put your balls in" (the Atomic Fireballs that I was eating, she meant).”

Source : Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.93, Scholastic Inc.
“We kept the old male ideas of success: power and money. We need new ones!”

Source : "Zosia Mamet Says You Don’t Have To Be Hillary, Bey Or Oprah To Be Successful" By Alanna Vagianos, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2014.
“Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.”
“We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.”
“I try to separate my personal life from swimming.”
“Our intention is to not only attract the hardcore jazz fan, but we're doing it in such a way that it will also be easy to take for those who are not necessarily steeped in the ways of jazz.”

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