"I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time."

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Source : Letter to a patron, in John Hayes 'Thomas Gainsborough' (1980) p. 14

Thomas Gainsborough

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“Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.”
“The Italian economy has been held back for decades.”
“You have to watch India in India truly to appreciate the pressure that Sachin Tendulkar is under every time he bats. Outside grounds, people wait until he goes in before paying to enter. They seem to want a wicket to fall even though it is their own side that will suffer”

Source : "Sachin Tendulkar survived pressure of expectation to unite a nation" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2013.
“Anglo-Saxon barbarians. Arthur should have been made a Knight”

Source : William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone (2014). “A Dangerous Man: A Novel of William "Wild Bill" Longley”, p.210, Pinnacle Books
“Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.”
“This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.”
“The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . . undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.”
“In America, black is a country.”

Source : Amiri Baraka (2009). “Home: Social Essays”, Akashic Books

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