"Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows."

-- George Eliot

#Long Quotes #Shadow Quotes #Dying Quotes

“Art is too serious to be taken seriously.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.14, Univ of California Press
“I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him.”

Source : Amarillo Slim Preston, Greg Dinkin (2013). “Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People: The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived”, p.1, Harper Collins
“Even by proving that a certain view is indispensable for living well, one proves merely that the view in question is a salutary myth: one does not prove it to be true.”
“I'm working for the people of Maine, not the whales of Maine.”
“I was given a chance and I took it.”
“I like to roller skate. I have been roller skating since I was eight.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.”
“If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.”

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