"Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them."

-- Diane Setterfield

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“I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.”
“Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.”

Source : Agnes Martin (2005). “Schriften”, Cantz
“Just as the setting sun turned the clouds to liquid gold.”
“I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".”
“A gripper of a read . . . Silence revives the cliff’s-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the tragedy of Mallory’s death.”

Source : Praise for "Into the Silence" by Wade Davis, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.
“And then simultaneously I don't think they're asking you to necessarily write in stone that this is what you're going to do or what you have to do.”
“Shouldn't you have a license for being that ugly?”
“Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.”

Source : Aelred of Rievaulx, Saint Aelred (of Rievaulx) (1974). “Spiritual friendship”, Cistercian Pubns

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