"Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a continual friend and a solace; it helps you now, and assures you of help in the future. Good education is a continual pain in the neck, and assures you always of more of the same."

-- Richard Mitchell

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“Suddenly it was gone. I'd lost more than my voice and my career. I'd lost my best friend.”
“Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything, that is, the spiritual.”

Source : Dutch art-magazine: 'Eenheid' no. 283, November 6, 1915.
“There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.”
“For sex to be wholly satisfying, we must have at least as much concern for a partner as for self - a requirement that doesn't live comfortably alongside the exhortation to 'do your own thing.' In the end, we are left with an extraordinarily heightened set of expectations about the possibilities in human relationships that lives side by side with disillusion that, for many, borders on despair.”
“There are people who don`t like women holding power.”
“A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays in the undergrowth, waiting to be discovered.”

Source : Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf
“Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”
“Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.”

Source : "George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol". Book by Linda O. McMurray, 1982.

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