"Humans are designed to be with other humans, even those with mixed blood. They need each other's laughter. They require each other's sorrows."

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Source : Kathi Appelt (2012). “The Underneath”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

Kathi Appelt

#Laughter Quotes #Blood Quotes #Sorrow Quotes

“Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.”
“This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.”
“...and deliver me from evil." "Amen.”
“At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.”
“Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”

Source : Anne Frank (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.163, Hamilton Books
“If you can't describe your strategy in twenty minutes, simply and in plain language, you haven't got a plan. 'But,' people may say, 'I've got a complex strategy. It can't be reduced to a page.' That's nonsense. That's not a complex strategy. It's a complex thought about the strategy.”
“I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.”
“Don't believe Wikipedia, not everything written there is true. The Soviet Artists Union was not a communist party organization. It was a professional union, which did not protect you from the government if the government decided you were the enemy, but it did give you the possibility to work in your profession and survive.”

Source : "INTERVIEW: Monumenta 2014 Artists Ilya And Emilia Kabakov". Interview with Douglas MacKaye Harrington, www.hamptons.com.

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