"He had won but he didn't feel like a winner."

-- Richard Yates

#Winner Quotes #Feels Quotes

“Battles are won through the ability of men to express concrete ideas in clear and unmistakable language.”
“The real joy is in discovering that the twigs and branches of my practice are all firmly rooted in a single tree, even as time goes by and I become increasingly aware of the fleetingness of all things.”
“We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.”
“I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.”
“I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.”
“As an amateur, you may envy the professional, wishing you could combine business with pleasure into a kind of full-time hobby, using professional equipment and facilities. However, the professional knows that much of the hidden advantage of being amateur is the freedom you have to shoot what and when you like.”

Source : Michael Langford (1998). “Advanced Photography”, p.18, Taylor & Francis
“When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting that I am, then I won't see it.”
“I'd like you to know that I have forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and persecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.”

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