"poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs."

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Source : Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.56, The Overlook Press

Dervla Murphy

#Simplicity Quotes #Needs Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.”
“Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art.”
“No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.”
“What you see is what you get.”
“We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs. To put our beliefs on hold is to cease to exist as ourselves for a moment -- and that is not easy ... but it is the only way to learn what it might feel like to be someone else and the only way to start the dialogue.”
“It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.”

Source : "Author Anne Rivers Siddons on her book ‘Nora, Nora’". Live chat, www.cnn.com. August 1, 2000.
“I personally prefer working digitally because it allows me to work quickly and cleanly. I don't have to buy paint or brushes or canvases, I don't have to wait for paintings to dry before sending them to clients, I don't have to photograph or scan my final work, and I can make edits immediately and easily.”

Source : Source: littleredreviewer.wordpress.com
“I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.”

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