"I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for."

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Source : Letter to Thomas Carlyle, 7 May 1822, in C. R. Sanders et al. (eds.) 'The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle' (1970) vol. 2

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#Personality Quotes #Persons Quotes

“What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics.”
“There is no one perfect way to be a good mother... Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly different children... What matters is that a mother loves her children deeply and, in keeping with the devotion she has for God and her husband, prioritizes them above all else.”
“In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.”

Source : "Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening". Book by Joseph Machlis, 1955.
“The greatest development after age 21 was shown by Steinitz, who increased his rating by more than a full class interval. Steinitz was the deep student and fierce competitor to the end of his career.”
“What can go wrong will go wrong.”
“People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent "the past" and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will.”
“A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.”
“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”

Source : Siri Hustvedt (2011). “The Summer Without Men: A Novel”, p.94, Macmillan

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