"Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree."

-- Erica Jong

#Home Quotes #House Quotes #Degrees Quotes

“I write to be the characters that I am not.”
“Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.”
“...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men Iâ€™ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I replied, "they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it." I, however, didnâ€™t want to be helped, and I hadnâ€™t time to work up interest for something that didnâ€™t interest me.”
“The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.”

Source : Madeleine Grynsztejn, Ellsworth Kelly, Julian Myers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002). “Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco”, p.9, Univ of California Press
“When you accept that you may fail, you can accomplish anything. Fear can be so debilitating. Every day I'm faced with difficult decisions, but losing the fear helps me make the right choices.”
“I like to sing when I have works to do - it does so help.”
“There are no boundaries or borders in the digital age.”
“Here, kitty, kitty, Chico says. The cover of his cage is still on, making his tiny clown voice slightly muffled. I feel bad for him under there, just waiting to start his evil little day...Freud walks toward Chico in his slinky fashion, sits under his cage and just stares. We have satanic pets...our pets seem to have made a pact with the devil.”

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