"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

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Source : Samuel Butler (2016). “The Way of All Flesh”, p.57, Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

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“My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They're my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing.”
“Any filmmaker would want to make something that can still be seen without someone saying, "Ugh that was repulsing, offensive, don't bother visiting it 2nd time."”
“Those things of real worth in life are worth going to any length in love and respect to safeguard.”

Source : "Icon will not throw in sponge" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2000.
“When people heckle me, I have the microphone. And the press has the microphone.”
“They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther; one fault begets another, one crime renders another necessary; and thus they are impelled continually downward into a depth of guilt, which at the commencement of their career they would have died rather than have incurred.”
“History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.”
“Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.”
“Companies that hire employees..that are deeply passionate create companies that customers are really really passionate about, and those are the companies that have strong brands.”

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