"The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one's feeling precisely?"

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Source : Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

Robert Motherwell

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“Solitary people, these book lovers. I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry about when you don't see them for a long time, you don't have to wonder what they do, how they're getting along with themselves. You just know that they're all right, and probably doing something they like.”

Source : Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.202, Pan Macmillan
“I definitely feel, when I'm wearing the costume, that I could scare people and hurt them.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In 1492 Columbus knew less about the far Atlantic than we do about the heavens, yet he chose not to sail with a flotilla of less than three ships. . . . So it is with interplanetary exploration: it must be done on the grand scale.”
“Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.”
“The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a man whose wrong-headedness and distorted way of looking at things produced, or helped to produce, such incalculable evil; there is a wide political applicability in the remark attributed to a famous Texan, to the effect that he might, in the end, pardon a man who shot him on purpose, but that he would surely never forgive one who did so accidentally.”
“I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood.”
“Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further along, a minaret - these symbols represent human life in all its diversity.”
“Christians in community must again show the world, not merely family values, but the bond of the love of Christ.”

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