"What has made it work, or what makes certain paintings successful or not, has to do with my being a painter and a thinking, feeling person, more than my sex, color, height, origin."

-- Helen Frankenthaler

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“I don't know how to stop the atrocities. I don't know how to make people care. But looking into my sister's eyes, we seem to have carved out something between us that none of the madness can touch. Invisible threads.”
“Less government in business and more business in government.”
“Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.”
“We all lose sometimes. We fail to get what we want. Friends and loved ones leave. We make a decision we regret. We try our hardest and come up short. It's not the losing that defines us. It's how we lose. It's what we do afterward.”

Source : Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.221, A&C Black
“I don't have anything to prove anymore. What other people think of me is not my business.”
“The mind and the body are like parallel universes. Anything that happens in the mental universe must leave tracks in the physical one”
“(As human beings) We see everything everything in a glass, darkly. Sometimes we can peer through the glass and catch a glimpse of what is on the other side. If we were to polish the glass clean, we'd see much more. But then we would no longer see ourselves.”
“Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.”

Source : Samuel Beckett (2012). “Murphy”, p.115, Faber & Faber

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