"I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art."

-- Caio Fonseca

#Art Quotes #Real Quotes #People Quotes

“Working under the Soviet system made you very paranoid - people were afraid of everything - and this paranoia is still in people's minds.”

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“Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.”
“There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published.”
“I think there are many feminists who would say that I am not a feminist. I love women, I have a lot of girlfriends, I admire them, they make so much more sense to me than men, and I feel like the world is a better place when women are in charge. So that kind of by default makes me a feminist. I love working in a female world.”
“Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.”
“She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost in a world of her own. She sleeps so little that most of her nights are spent reading.”

Source : E. M. Delafield (2016). “Diary of a Provincial Lady”, p.48, Pan Macmillan
“A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at schools which provide in some form for industrial education. These two points should be insisted upon. Let the normal instruction be that men must earn their own living, and that by the labor of their hands as far as may be. This is the gospel of salvation for the colored man. Let the labor not be servile, but in manly occupations like that of the carpenter, the farmer, and the blacksmith.”
“An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two”

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