"Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Children Quotes #Shoes Quotes #Feet Quotes

“I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up recorded history and the religions in those civilizations.”
“When you sit with people and you can hear what they're hearing, that's quite interesting.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.”
“Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint... and it's just a lot of inert matter, inert paint. Then I look back at the canvas, and it's not inert - it's active, moving and living.”
“I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.”
“Novels shouldnâ€™t aspire to answer questions, and I wouldnâ€™t presume to offer advice about love or marriage in any case. Whatâ€™s fascinating to me about marriage as a subject for fictionâ€”a subject that fiction has taken on with gusto since the 19th centuryâ€”is how unknowable other peopleâ€™s relationships are. Even the marriages of your parents, your siblings, your closest friends always remain something of a mystery. Only in fiction can you pretend to know people completely.”
“That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.”

Source : John McEwen, Paula Rego (1992). “Paula Rego”
“I learned to stop looking on the Internet pretty early on.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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