"Artists are the emotional historians of the world."

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Richard Blanco

#Emotional Quotes #Artist Quotes #World Quotes

“Itâ€™s the most maddening, beautiful, magical, horrible, painful, wonderful joyous thing in the world, love”
“Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.”
“You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar.”
“A circus here, a circus there; here today, gone tomorrow. Big Brother watching you. Fear eats the soul.”

Source : David Peace (2010). “Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Four”, p.28, Profile Books
“As someone who grew up in a house where there wasn't a lot of talking, I'm used to just looking at the world. And in general I often feel like I just don't understand what's happening. That everybody else does, but I don't quite get it.”

Source : "'This film is unmarketable'". Interview with Pascal Wyse, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2006.
“Kyoya: Some say I only became more calculating but I don't care... because you lose out if you don't have fun, right?”
“Evie hadnâ€™t always felt that way. For a year after James had died, sheâ€™d cupped his half-dollar pendant between her pressed palms and prayed fervently for a miracle, for a telegram that would say GOOD NEWS! IT WAS A TERRIBLE MISTAKE, AND PRIVATE JAMES XAVIER Oâ€™NEILL HAS BEEN FOUND, SAFE, IN A FARMHOUSE IN FRANCE. But no such telegram ever arrived, and whatever possible faith might have bloomed in Evie withered and died. Now she saw it as just another advertisement for a life that belonged to a previous generation and held no meaning for hers.”
“Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.”

Source : Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger (1991). “The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987”, p.171, New Directions Publishing

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