"Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question."

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Albert Camus

#Inspirational Quotes #Asking Quotes #Answers Quotes

“Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.”

Source : 1915 Manifesto, quoted in C Gray The Russian Experiment in Art (rev edn1986).
“School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.”
“Pour me another tequila, I'm going to put on your red satin dress. You put on my clothes.”
“The opportunity to use a computer is great when it is used as one component, or when someone is working on his or her own sounds and approaches. I think it actually has the same restrictions as using the piano or any other instrument in [a traditional] way.”
“Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.”

Source : Andrew Sean Greer (2013). “The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells”, p.55, Faber & Faber
“This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates - is they just keeping giving back.”
“In the West, you take people at their word.”
“Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.”

Source : Primo Levi (1995). “The Periodic Table”, Schocken

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