"Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences."

-- George S. Patton

#Duty Quotes #Consequence Quotes

“She's still doing it, pushing me into situations I can't handle, making me cope. She knows I can't cope.”
“Water and stones. Those are the unpromising ingredients of two very different endeavors... painting, because artists' pigments are made from fluids... mixed together with powdered stones to give color... and the other is alchemy, the stone the ultimate goal.”
“I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to write as the character would write, and I never forget that the average man, from the fields, the streets, the bars, the offices and even the gutters of his country, has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond anything I could invent, and that if I stick to this heritage, this logos of the American countryside, I shall attain a maximum of effectiveness with very little effort.”
“Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.”
“Joy may be a miser, But Sorrow's purse is free.”
“My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.”
“Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.”
“I'm sort of the bossiest sister.”

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