"I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing."

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Howard Hodgkin

#Gallery Quotes #Soothing Quotes #Copies Quotes

“Hope is a very thin diet.”

Source : Thomas Shadwell, Sir John Shadwell (1720). “The squire of Alsatia. Bury fair. The amorous bigot. The scowrers. The volunteers”, p.176
“Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies.”

Source : Leonard Peltier (2016). “Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance”, p.23, St. Martin's Griffin
“Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.”
“I can feel the knee or the foot. The baby is starting to get heavy, and itâ€™s a really incredible feeling. Iâ€™m so grateful I get to experience this.”
“You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals.”
“When you become rich and famous and you get a lot of attention, very few people get to go through that cycle without having a hard time. Everybody in their lives has a hard period. I don't know anybody who's ever been alive who hasn't had like, heartbreak, despair, depression, death, drug or alcohol, or weight problems, or health problems.”
“Legal immigrants play by the rules and come in under the law. They work, raise their families, pay taxes, and serve in the Armed Forces. ... Legal immigrants do not seek to cross the border, or overstay their visas. They come here the right way. ... And, by and large, they are here as the result of reunifying families...”
“Psychic disturbances are the consequences of the sexual chaos of society. For thousands of years, this chaos has had the function of psychically subjecting man to the prevailing conditions of existence, of internalizing the external mechanization of life. It has served to bring about the psychic anchoring of a mechanized and authoritarian civilization by making man incapable of functioning independently.”

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