"Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice."

-- Mignon McLaughlin

#Class Quotes #Choices Quotes #Citizens Quotes

“I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.”
“I think we're living in a time when size is not a strategic advantage, necessarily.”
“This is a low flying person”
“When a young writer deliberately tries to create an effect, the result is often a little self-conscious and overdone. But why is it so hard for us to glory in what the writer has tried to do, or even in the very fact that the writer has deliberately tried to do something?”

Source : Lucy McCormick Calkins, Lucy Calkins (1991). “Living Between the Lines”, Heinemann Educational Books
“When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.”
“Damien Hirst's Mother and Child Divided (1993) is a work which can at first glance be read as nothing more than two brutally severed carcasses. "A freak show" was how the art critic of the Sunday Telegraph responded to its presentation in the Turner Prize in 1995. For me, the undoubted shock, even disgust provoked by the work is part of its appeal. Art should be transgressive. Life is not all sweet.”

Source : "Who's Afraid of Modern Art?". The Dimbleby Lecture, 2000.
“I had longed to come home but now that I was there, it wasn't much fun. Home wasn't the same if I couldn't sleep in my own bedroom or use the bathroom by myself. I felt like a stranger in those familiar rooms.”

Source : Peg Kehret (2013). “Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio”, p.82, Open Road Media
“An artist gives. Gives visually, gives through courses, or with free advice, through generosity of spirit and through a need to share.”

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