"I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract' no problem at all."

-- Robert Motherwell

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“Dear Young People, do not be mediocre; the Christian life challenges us with great ideals!”
“Novelist time is reptile time; novelists tend to be ruminant and brooding, nursers of ancient grievances, second-guessers, Tuesday afternoon quarterbacks, retrospectators, endlessly, like slumping hitters, studying the film of their old whiffs.”
“Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.”
“[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.”

Source : Milovan Đilas (1975). “Parts of a Lifetime”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
“I majored in elementary education, and I have a passion for kids.”
“You could carry your burdens lightly orÂ withÂ great effort. You could worry about tomorrow or not. You could imagine horrible fates or garland-filled tomorrows. None of it mattered as long as you moved, as long as you did something. Asking why was fine, but it wasn't action. Nothing brought the rewards of moving, of running. Sometimes you just do things.”

Source : Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.94, A&C Black
“No one is perfect. It's not interesting to be perfect.”
“Needless to say, I'll be buying my Irwin Tools at Lowe's.”

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