"The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts"

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Source : Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance - Studies in Art and Painting”, p.103, Lulu Press, Inc

Walter Pater

#Perfection Quotes #Way Quotes #Disgusting Quotes

“It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house ; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.”
“I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.”
“I believe it's our responsibility as citizens to get in there and not accept the constant failure of prisons to deal with racism, lack of privilege, and impoverishment - not accept any of that. Just get in there!”

Source : Interview with Barbara Stahura, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2003.
“Grief is not graceful.”
“I don't have pets, I have two guard dogs; and I don't do my own shopping; it's a security thing.”
“No ***** ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb ***** die for his country.”
“Even American women are not felt to be persons in the same sense as the male immigrants among the Hungarians, Poles, Russian Jews,--not to speak of Italians, Germans, and the masters of all of us--the Irish!”
“The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.”

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