"Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human beings in real life; painting is more about the extreme moments when speech doesn't help anymore."

-- Francesco Clemente

#Real Quotes #Retreat Quotes #Speech Quotes

“Like now what Urban Outfitters has become is very much how I always dressed in high school by going to garage sales and getting stuff for 50 cents. Cost a little more now, to look like crap.”
“I repented at 28 and turned to Jesus.”
“Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.”
“Perhaps the biggest obstacle in destroying white supremacy is the hatred and hostility that Africans have for each other.”
“To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.”
“But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.”

Source : Rosamund Lupton (2011). “Afterwards”, p.187, Hachette UK
“I have to be careful because there is something destructive within me, I think, and I can have a tendency to just search for the kicks. I can't really get too close to someone who's too destructive, or too dark, because then I might go down the rabbit hole myself.”
“Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.”

Source : "'When I was four, I knew I was weird'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2005.

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