"James - "Are you paying attention or just trying to make me look like an idoit?" Elizabeth - "Oh, I'm definately paying attention. If you look like an idiot it has nothing to do with me."

-- Julia Quinn

#Trying Quotes #Looks Quotes #Attention Quotes

“And again, the political economy in that particular environment means that, if my attraction ever coheres as a thought at all, it's never going to be verbalized, because that will mess up the education environment, it will mess up everything. You cannot claim to be doing good if you're moving in that direction.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce individuality of passion with the dulling universal certainty of platitude.”
“Emerson was not passionate about abolition. He wasn't a passionate person. He was a cool intellectual, and I think he probably was a little uncomfortable with passionate people, but he was against slavery.”
“In my theater pieces, I would do "Tits on the Head" - Polaroid photos for $10 on the stage. There would be a line of folks paying me $10 for their turn. It was public prostitution. I turned my whole audience into johns. But because it was in a theater context, an art context, it was socially acceptable.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.”

Source : Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) "On Being Idle"
“No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.”
“It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.”
“Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.”

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