"The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you."

-- Wendy Beckett

#Art Quotes #Greatness Quotes #World Quotes

“It is a burden, I'm saying, to live where I live.”

Source : Tess Gallagher (1999). “At the Owl Woman Saloon”, Scribner
“Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen Collect; with elbows idly press'd On hob, reclines the corner's guest, Reading the news to mark again The bankrupt lists or price of grain. Puffing the while his red-tipt pipe He dreams o'er troubles nearly ripe, Yet, winter's leisure to regale, Hopes better times, and sips his ale.”
“Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.”

Source : Quoted in Paul Dickson, The Official Explanations (1980)
“I don't want to create controversy; I just have an opinion on things, and there is nothing wrong with stating your opinion if you are asked. Everyone wants that right, and because you are famous doesn't mean you have less of a right.”
“Boats in the harbor are safe but that is not what they are meant for.”
“Oh, do you want protectionism? No, I don't. I just don't want to give my country away to China.”
“Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.”
“Prayer is not a substitute for work. First we have to do all we can ourselves to understand a situation. Then when we ask for help, sometimes it is very evident, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes we may well be helped by not getting a decision.”

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