"Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends."

-- Aristotle

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“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”
“The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which he is subjected, but without knowing it trains himself for new compulsions. ... Training in sports makes of the individual an efficient piece of apparatus which is henceforth unacquainted with anything but the harsh joys of exploiting his body and winning.”
“I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.”
“I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.”
“The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph.”

Source : James Larkin (1995*). “In the footsteps of Big Jim: a family biography”, Blackwater Press
“It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.”
“I refused to worry about something I could not change, and I still refuse. Look, I'm like any other woman. All this evolved b.s. that I'm telling you is my mantra. It's not something I practice naturally. I had to surrender to not worrying about the way I looked, how much I weighed, because that's just part of the journey of having a baby. I am not a woman whose self-worth comes from her dress size.”
“It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: â€œWith his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches the gaps in the structure of the universe.”

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