"And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the book's outside, who ne'er look'd within?"

-- William Cowper

#Book Quotes #Kissing Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.”

Source : Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
“His mother saw that he was not lonesome, and because she was an understanding mother, even though she was a cow, she let him just sit there and be happy.”

Source : Munro Leaf (1977). “El cuento de Ferdinando”, Puffin
“I did a lot of theater as a kid because I had a bunch of friends who did it.”
“I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. Thats my nature.”
“I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, and to stand by and watch him decline in his ability to take care of himself.”
“Remember, this is back in the 1940s, and it was sculpture which probably - in my instance probably came out of the European influence, [Alexander] Archipenko and things of that sort, [Jacques] Lipchitz to a certain extent, and I was influenced by those things and attempted to do work that emulated their style.”
“The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.”
“In the camera business, you won't survive if you don't innovate. In the guitar business you may or may not. The guitars being sold were designed between '48 and '59, Gibson SGs in '61.”

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