"Look at Goethe, at Lamartine and at many others! To depict feelings on this high plane, you must give up the process of minute and insignificant observation which is the bane of the artists of to-day."

-- Paul Bourget

#Giving Up Quotes #Artist Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.”

Source : Michael Gruber (2010). “The Good Son: A Novel”, p.93, Macmillan
“From an acting perspective, I would say that you should always try to make your own stuff. Always be ambitious about your own projects and always know better than anyone else what you're good at.”
“It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.”
“Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.”
“Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.”
“Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.”
“We have over a hundred political detainees, men against whom we are unable to prove anything in a court of law. Nearly 50 of them are men who gave us a great deal of anxiety during the years of Confrontation because they were Malay extremists. Your life and this dinner would not be what it is if my colleagues and I had decided to play it according to the rules of the game.”
“When you miss me just look up to the night sky and remember, I'm like a star; sometimes you can't see me, but I'm always there.”

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