"Autumn in felted slipper shuffles on, Muted yet fiery.--Vita Sackville-West"

-- Vita Sackville-West

#Autumn Quotes #West Quotes #Slippers Quotes

“Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.”
“Education has for its object the formation of character.”
“As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it is their chief business, the occupation and aim of life. For me it is a relaxation, a pastime which distracts me from my principal business, my professorship. I love my profession and my science. I love the Academy and my pupils, male and female, because to direct the work of young people, one must be close to them.”
“Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do.”
“I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.”
“When one makes sculptures of horses, one remembers all of that great relationship that humans had with them.....Even today one raises horses only for dressage, the races, for the pleasure of horseback riding. It has become an animal of romance, an animal of pleasure which has lost its utility in the West.”
“I try to dress classy and dance cheesy.”
“Just because I had a winner, it doesn't mean I'm gonna be like, "OK, I need a new 'Successful.'" That's silly. I just don't want anything to sound like anything else, which I hope is everybody's vision.”

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