"You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know."

-- Allan Gurganus

#Different Quotes #Kind Quotes #Different Kinds Quotes

“Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.”
“I'm not a religious person. I don't have any desire. To me it's imitative of a conventional culture. I'm all for it for anybody. I totally have a free and open feeling about how other humans want to live their lives. It's just not something that has any real significance for me.”
“I may not be a human, but I am a man.”
“The Puerto Ricans forming the ranks of the gallant 65th Infantry on the battlefields of Korea â€¦ are writing a brilliant record of achievement in battle and I am proud indeed to have them in this command. I wish that we might have many more like them.”
“The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.”
“It is, I think, that we are all so alone in what lies deepest in our souls, so unable to find the words, and perhaps the courage to speak with unlocked hearts, that we don't know at all that it is the same with others.”
“Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.”
“A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.”

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