"When you visit a foreign city you are in it, but not of it, separated by a glass wall. Once, while a student, I was getting dressed in my ground-floor room when a family of Italians crossed the grass to watch, as if I were laid on for their amusement and instruction."

-- Simon Hoggart

#Wall Quotes #Glasses Quotes #Cities Quotes

“I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.”
“The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.”
“I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.”
“Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light, and serenity.”
“Don't date the captain of the football team; be the captain of the football team.”
“All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.”

Source : Oscar W. Firkins (1934). “Memoirs and Letters”, p.94, U of Minnesota Press
“Idealization of a group is a natural consequence of separation from the group; in other words, it is a by-product of alienation.”
“So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.”

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