"Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight."

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Source : Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A perilous advantage: the best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, New Victoria Pub

Natalie Clifford Barney

#Revenge Quotes #Foresight Quotes

“I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I wanted to write songs; thankfully, I also got to sing them.”
“Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.”
“I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.”
“It's a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor's orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.”
“Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.”
“The meaning of life is found by diving deep, deep within.”
“The compelling thing about making artâ€”or making anything, I supposeâ€”is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances. Circe, Nimbue, Artemis, Athena, all the old sorceresses: they must have known the feeling as they transformed mere men into fabulous creatures, stole the secrets of the magicians, disposed armies: ah, look, there it is, the new thing. Call it a swine, a war, a laurel tree. Call it art.”
“I'm used to working really hard to get a role. I was always auditioning and talking my way into roles.”

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