"Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague."

-- Vincent Van Gogh

#Essentials Quotes #Obvious Quotes

“A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this is no time for sleeping! You can't forget me, there's still more to write!' Impelled by that voice, I would find myself writing a novel. In this sense, too, my short stories and novels connect inside me in a very natural, organic way.”
“No disrespect to the country. It's a wonderful place, the... where's he gone again?”

Source : "Mancini asks 'Garry who?' as Cook leaves City, plus 'win an Everton directors' experience'". www.mirror.co.uk. September 11, 2011.
“We got rid of colonialism, we got rid of slavery, and we got rid of apartheid everyone thought each one of them was impossible. Let's take the next impossible, do it with joy and get it finished with and create a world free from poverty. Let us create the world of our choice.”
“Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park”
“You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge-even in a boy it is so-and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher.”
“A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.”
“Standing up here 10 in a row, you know, like a bunch of seals waiting for somebody to throw you the next fish, is not necessarily the best way to impart your information to the American people. I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.”
“Thinking is sometimes too intense, so once I start feeling pain, if it is not too much pain, it eases my mind.”

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