"I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it."

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Source : "Louise Bourgeois: a web of emotions" by Adrian Searle, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2010.

Louise Bourgeois

#Mad Quotes #Spiders Quotes #Bash Quotes

“Man I just ended up on everybody guestlist. Iâ€™m just doing better than what everybody projected.”
“I think habits and behaviors are very hard to change. And they're even harder when you're back home.”

Source : "‘Pretty Little Liars’ EP Explains How Spencer and Caleb Ended up Together, Teases What’s Down Sara’s Ladder". Interview with Reid Nakamura, www.thewrap.com. February 16, 2016.
“The sad truth is that among today's evangelicals it is not loving and esteeming God but self-love and self-esteem that are presented as the pressing need!”
“Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran, Pleasure with pain for leaven, Summer with flowers that fell, Remembrance fallen from heaven, And Madness risen from hell, Strength without hands to smite, Love that endures for a breath; Night, the shadow of light, And Life, the shadow of death.”
“When you're home or you're working, your mind just isn't allowed to just roll on like it does when you're watching the scenery go by. You're hurdling through space but you're not really moving. ...It's that dreaminess, that ability to just get dreamy while you're looking out the window and you see something...and it makes you think of something else, and all of a sudden the words are just flowing out of you.”
“I don't think anything less than perfect, even though I'm a human being. The way I work and go at things is to better myself in perfect terms.”
“Be careful what you choose: You may get it.”
“Because I don't do stand-up, radio has always been my equivalent, a place to stay in connection with the public and force myself to write every week and come up with new characters. Plus it's a medium that â€“ having grown up with it and putting myself to sleep with a radio under my pillow [as a kid] â€“ I love. No matter what picture you want to create in the listener's mind, a few minutes of work gets it done.”

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