"For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them."

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Source : Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.517, Macmillan

Catherynne M. Valente

#Heart Quotes #Two Quotes #Practice Quotes

“Before you pledge your undying love to someone, make them promise they won't die.”
“Tabloid discussion of bad children always blames baby-boomer liberals, careerist mothers and fashion-crazed Nathan Barley types who think it's all enormously funny. But the centre-leftish psycho-thinker Oliver James says it's all down to the Thatcher-and-after culture of turbo-capitalism, making people acquisitive and unsatisfied.”
“A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.”

Source : "A cleaner, faster animation" by Katie Dean, www.wired.com. October 19, 1999.
“Designers are more like artistic directors now. Before, there wasn't this idea of supervising the artistic direction of the entire house. The old way was to think you could be this couturier or designer or stylist.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.”
“The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.”
“Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?”
“Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured brick of unusual shape is henceforth hailed as an architect.”

Source : "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert, Hogarth Press edition, "Toute réaction est vraie", p. 91, 1985.

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