"Be the holder of your own Nature. It is a joyful responsibility."

-- Eric Fischl

#Responsibility Quotes #Joy Quotes #Joyful Quotes

“The people who lived behind those clean lace curtains in row after row of identical boxes were newspaper readers, and every word in at any rate my newspaper must be clear and comprehensible to them, must be interesting to them, must encourage them to break away from littleness, stimulate their ambition, help them to want to build a better land.”

Source : 1961 Headlines all my Life, ch.1.
“This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.”
“there won't be one, single global market. But there will be global investors.”

Source : "The Age of Global Markets and the Global Investor". Presentation at 25th International SFOA Bürgenstock Conference, 2004.
“All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me.... If I must not, because of my sex, have this freedom... I lay down my quill and you shall hear no more of me.”

Source : Aphra Behn (2014). “Behn Five Plays”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing
“There are a lot of grown ups who should be sent up to their rooms and told they must stay there until they learn they can play fair.”

Source : "Hi Neigbour, Salam Neighbour". "For Whom the Troubadour Sings", Book by Dawud Wharnsby, 2009.
“The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by aesthetic standards; rather, he is ethically depraved, a criminal willing radical evil. And since it is radical evil that is manifest here, evil per se, forming the absolute negative pole of every value-system, kitsch will always be evil, not just kitsch in art, but kitsch in every value-system that is not an imitation system.”
“Don't ever play with someone's feelings, you could win the game but you could lose that person forever.”
“My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.”

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