"No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed."

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Harold MacMillan

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“I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.”

Source : Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.21, Univ of California Press
“I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.”
“The day I pitched, I would drink either 'cause I was celebrating or I lost and couldn't sleep.”
“I should at least mention that I am also discovering a degree of strength and of basic ability for humans to remain human in the direst of circumstances â€“ which I also havenâ€™t seen before. I think the word is dignity. I wish you could meet these people. Maybe, hopefully, someday you will.”

Source : "Rachel's war", www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2003.
“It is easier to kill what we do not know.”
“So often we are too lazy or too distracted to see with care. Images come into our retinas, and our minds have already interpreted them. We do not see without our biases, our habits of life and thought.”
“One of the rules of history is that people do not write about what is too obvious to mention. And so the information, having never been recorded, is now lost for ever.”

Source : "You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone" by Michael Bywater, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2004.
“[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron Rokeby, nearly blinded himself in deciphering the two volumes of undated correspondence which were printed in 1810. Two more followed in 1813, after which the gallant Baron either died at his post or was smitten with despair; for sixty-eight cases of letters lay undisturbed ... 'Les morts n'écrivent point,' said Madame de Maintenon hopefully; but of what benefit is this inactivity, when we still continue to receive their letters?”

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