"The silent painting speaks on the walls and does much good."

-- Gregory of Nyssa

#Art Quotes #Wall Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you.”
“Angus Deaton has written a wonderful book, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. . . . Deaton's book is a magisterial overview of health, income, and wealth from the industrial revolution to the present, taking in countries poor and rich. Not just jargon-free but equation-free, the book is written with a beautifully lucid style. . . . [P]owerfully argued and convincing.”
“It's easy to be beautiful - just be born that way.”
“Practice is funny that way. For days and days, you make out only the fragments of what to do. And then one day you've got the thing whole. Conscious learning becomes unconscious knowledge, and you cannot say precisely how.”
“Many foreigners have asked me how we made the Danish style. And I've answered that it...was rather a continuous process of purification, and for me of simplification, to cut down to the simplest possible elements of four legs, a seat and combined top rail and arm rest.”
“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.”
“I'm 18, I'm going to graduate high school in a few months.”
“When we get our sense of self from only one place, when something goes wrong and the inevitable happens, it can crush you emotionally, spiritually and physically. So itâ€™s important not to believe you are defined by one place, one relationship or one thing, and to find ways to keep your sense of self strong.”

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