"Confessions of a Video Vixen' is not a book about my encounters with celebrities, or anyone else for that matter. It is my life story, thus far, which just so happens to include some people you may have heard of."

-- Karrine Steffans

#Book Quotes #People Quotes #Encounters Quotes

“Not even I, in my original Spanish, am necessarily obliged to make exact quotations. I can do that or not, I can play with that opportunity or not. This is my right, or poetic license, as someone who is building an artefact of fantasy - this implicit pact with the reader is my starting point.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Yet soil is miraculous. It is where the dead are brought back to life. Here, in the thin earthy boundary between inanimate rock and the planet's green carpet, lifeless minerals are weathered from stones or decomposed from organic debris. Plants and microscopic animals eat these dead particles and recast them as living matter. In the soil, matter recrosses the boundary between living and dead; and, as we have seen, boundaries-edges-are where the most interesting and important events occur.”
“We must each of us bear our own misfortunes.”

Source : Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.43, A&C Black
“Podor is a nice town. It's at the north of Senegal near the river. The town faces the other country that is Mauritania. It is a very cultural town, because at the beginning it was closest stop when you come from the Sahara and also when you come from the south to go to the north part of Africa. It was just at the middle, and so it's where a lot of cultures of West Africa come together.”
“Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.”

Source : Max Eastman (1921). “The Sense of Humor”
“The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness.”
“I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out. Sometimes I'm working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time. I do that because I want to - because I like to change my mind so often. The thing to do is always to keep starting to paint, never finishing painting.”

Source : Arshile Gorky, Matthew Spender (2009). “Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents”
“You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.”

Source : "Great Thoughts to Sell By: Quotes to Motivate You to Success". Book by Gerhard Gschwandtner, 2007.

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