"Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you can't condescend."

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Maureen Dowd

#Dinner Quotes #Evening Quotes #Tvs Quotes

“Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death â€” this infantile fixation of mine â€” was, at that moment, overwhelming. I felt myself in contact with death day and night, and my fear was tremendous. When I finished the picture, my fear went away. I have the feeling simply of having painted a canvas in an enormous hurry â€” with enormous pretension but without any arrogance. I said, 'Here is a painting; take it, please.”
“They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones.”
“There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.”
“I'm drawn to the classic antihero, the guy who's probably made a bunch of mistakes and really has the capacity to go either way. That's the most interesting type of character for me to watch, to see what decisions they'll make. There's a lot of gray area there for a writer to explore.”
“Life and art are not two different things....”
“In poetry, rhythm is a priority above everything else.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [...], some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world?”

Source : Elizabeth Bishop (2008). “Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters”
“The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.”

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