"All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion."

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Louise Bogan

#Art Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“I choose to work behind the camera. And I kind of want to make the work and then run away. The presentation of myself really feels complicated for me.”
“Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”

Source : "The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm".
“I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my great-grandparents were victims of the Great Hunger of the 1840's, even though I was named Thomas Emmet Hayden IV after the radical Irish nationalist exile Thomas Emmet, my inheritance was to be disinherited. My parents knew nothing of this past, or nothing worth passing on.”
“The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.”

Source : Fanny Fern (1872). “Caper-sauce: A Volume of Chit-chat about Men, Women, and Things”, p.95
“Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. 'Call-time' is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my 'call-time manager,' and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I'm really good at it.”
“Michael was a rare breed. There's no question about that. He did things that a lot of players could never do, and still to this day players can't do those things, so the honors that he's had are definitely deserved.”
“..."I ran out of stock around midnight and dropped by a place, got some Chinese." I hoped he meant takeout.”
“The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of Godâ€™s,”

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