"Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man."

-- Robert A. Heinlein

#Appreciation Quotes #Men Quotes #Genius Quotes

“The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.”
“A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.”

Source : MYRTLE REED (1910). “MASTER OF THE VINEYARD”
“Sometimes if a script is based on a book, that's what you should do: represent the book.”
“The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. I have contented these people with all the many bizarre things that come into my head. And the less they understand, the more they admire it. By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.”
“The idea of going to school to be an art critic is a very crazy idea. I educated myself in public, which is a very painful way to learn - by writing and then discovering that I don't know what the f**k I'm talking about. But you remember the lessons vividly.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.”

Source : Henri Fesquet Wit and Wisdom of Good Pope John (1964) p. 112
“You will be educated, which means that you will be interested where others are bored, that you will notice unities where others experience randomness, and that you will intend meanings where others are just spouting words. For exactly that is supposed to be the result of becoming literate: The world becomes a thick texture of significance that you know how to â€œaccess.”
“I learned from the git-go in the joint to get in touch with the soft, nurturing side of myself, the feminine side.”

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