"Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things."

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Source : Georgia O'Keeffe, Jonathan Stuhlman, Barbara Buhler Lynes (2007). “Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction”, p.22, Hudson Hills

Georgia O'Keeffe

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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
“All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's.”
“When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful and difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Oct 30, 2013
“The payoff of a human venture is, in general, inversely proportional to what it is expected to be.”
“I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death.”
“Poetry is language in orbit.”

Source : Seamus Heaney (2010). “Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971 - 2001”, p.366, Faber & Faber
“God knew we would make mistakes. Life is all about mistakes. It is constant change and growth. Our greatest challenges in life will one day be known to us as our greatest teachers.”
“The biggest problem about looking at a problem is looking at it. When we finally find or face it, it becomes harmless and easy to solve.”

Source : Robert Scheid (1980). “Beyond the Love Game”

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