"Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone."

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Ada Louise Huxtable

#Inability Quotes #Enough Quotes #Embellishment Quotes

“But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.”
“I wasnâ€™t old enough to realize that I could be my terrible self and have people love me for that.”
“Colors produce a spiritual vibration, the impression they create is important only as a step towards this vibration.”
“I honestly believe, and I've said it many times, that the universal stems from the specific and I can't walk around with a performance and ask everyone how they feel about it, but if noble is an opinion that people have I'll accept that. I've been asked many times why I don't play bad guys, or heavies, and I would do it, absolutely, in a second, just haven't been offered any so... if anybody has a script out there tonight I'm more than willing.”
“The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface of a man's life, to get behind the faÃ§ade of conventional gestures and attitudes which he presents to the world, and to bring out his inner spiritual freedom, his inmost truth, which is what we call the likeness of Christ in his soul.”
“I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.”
“Peace will never be won if men reserve for war their greatest efforts, Peace, too, requires well-directed and sustained sacrificial endeavor. Given that, we can, I believe, achieve the great goal of our foreign policy, that of enabling our people to enjoy in peace the blessings of liberty.”
“There's no future in being poor.”

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