"Iâ€™ve never had anyoneâ€™s approval, so Iâ€™ve learned to live without it."

-- Pat Conroy

#Approval Quotes

“It is not quite accurate to say that the objective of art is to represent what happens to us as a consequence of encountering the world. A fuller description of the task would be to say our aim is to discover what happens to us as we consider things.”
“Impermanence is the law of the universe.”

Source : Carlene Hatcher Polite (1987). “The flagellants”, Beacon Pr
“we have invented sex guilt to take our minds off the real thing.”
“What we consider to be different depends on what we consider to be the norm.”
“Love changes things; hope allows us to endure until the change arrives.”
“In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth”
“[...] Ich bin kein anhänger der Behauptung, daß Maschinen kreativ seien. Jederman, der dies sein sollte, muß jedoch beschreiben, woher die Intuition der Maschinen für eine Kreation kommt. Ich vermute, daß Zufallsgeneratoren dabei eine wichtige Rolle spielen müssen.”
“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.”

Source : Upton Sinclair (2016). “Presidential Agent”, p.373, Open Road Media

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