"But your book is wrong, Mrs. Strunk, says George, when it tells you that Jim is the substitute I found for a real son, a real kid brother, a real husband, a real wife. Jim wasn't a substitute for anything. And there is no substitute for Jim, if you'll forgive my saying so, anywhere."

-- Christopher Isherwood

#Brother Quotes #Husband Quotes #Real Quotes

“Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.”
“It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.”

Source : Interview with Michael Cavna, voices.washingtonpost.com. October 22, 2008.
“A boycott would send a clear message to Yahoo shareholders and other companies which cheerfully sacrifice human rights in return for a cut of the Chinese market.”
“Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.”
“I think, when all bands start, when you're on your first album you have the benefit of hoovering up people who genuinely come across the music and really like it, but also those sort of 'floating voters' who just like pop music when they're young. And I think that when you get to your fourth album, those floating voters have dissipated and you're left with a core audience, and at that point you've really got to get your act together and move on to something else to keep afloat, or you'll just shrink with your core audience.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“These stories about my intellectual capacity really get under my skin. You know, for a while I even thought my staff believed it. There on my schedule first thing every morning it said, 'Intelligence Briefing.'”
“The only constant I can find is hard work.”

Source : "Paul Dano: there's light at the end of his journeys into darkness". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2014.
“When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.”

Source : Jakob Böhme (1781). “The works ¬of ¬J. ¬Behmen, ¬the ¬teutonic ¬theosopher”

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