"The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art."

-- Max Beerbohm

#Art Quotes #Vitality Quotes #Sensitive Quotes

“I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.”
“Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." "The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not have been the smartest thing to say. "Dorothea will be coming soon." That was a lie. Dorothea was long gone. It was close to midnight. "Dorothea?" "Our housekeeper. She's old- but strong. Very strong." I tried to squeeze past him. Unsuccessfully. "Sounds frightening," he said, retrieving the key from the lock. He held it out for me. "She can clean a toilet inside and out in under a minute. More like terrifying.”
“No matter how much lip service those committed to power (psychopaths) may pay to the principle of equality (empaths), they can never approach their fellow human beings on an equal footing; their relationships with others are defined solely in terms of power and weakness. Therefore, they must accumulate as much power as possible, with the aim of becoming invulnerable and proving this invulnerability.”
“Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.”
“The true is not material reality only.”

Source : Jules Breton (1892). “The Life of an Artist: An Autobiography”
“Doing anything on a movie at Sundance is great.”
“Being a melting pot is what I think is great about being American, and also that we get to do something that other people don't get to do, we get to be a hyphenate. That's a good thing.”

Source : "Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele of Key & Peele". Interview With Jesse Thorn, tv.avclub.com. March 20, 2012.
“I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.”

Source : August Wilson (1988). “Joe Turner's Come and Gone”

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