"To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence, allowing one to feel it through the ineptitude of the interpretation. I prefer the Chopin that reaches me in the street from an open window to the Chopin served in great style from the concert stage."

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Source : Witold Gombrowicz (1988). “Diary”, p.32, Northwestern University Press

Witold Gombrowicz

#Art Quotes #Style Quotes #Ineptitude Quotes

“No one knows what to do with you, girlie.”
“If I wasn't acting, I think I would like to do interior design. Yeah, because you know, with the Balinese background, and being there and buying furniture, stuff like that. I love to do-up our home, so I would be an interior decorator, for sure.”
“It was ME, Dad, that hired Stone Cold back. Dad, it was me!”

Source : "WWE Raw", October 26, 1998.
“The obstacles facing academic economists are formidable, for tenure and professional advancement still depend to a large extent on a willingness to comply with and to work within the tenets of orthodox theory.”

Source : "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.
“God wants to bless us in many ways that require faith. We must trust that He is answering our prayers even when we canâ€™t see it.”
“The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.”
“We need people like me in the Labour party.”
“I think Charlie George was one of Arsenal's all time great players. A lot of people might not agree with that, but I personally do”

Source : Jimmy Greaves, Ian St John (2009). “Saint And Greavsie's Funny Old Games”, p.196, Hachette UK

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