"Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend."

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Source : Quoted in Evan Esar, A Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

John Singer Sargent

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“It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.”
“In the American hemisphere the cause of freedom and independence has continued to prevail, and if signalized by none of those splendid triumphs which had crowned with glory some of the preceding years it has only been from the banishment of all external force against which the struggle had been maintained. The shout of victory has been superseded by the expulsion of the enemy over whom it could have been achieved.”
“Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.”

Source : "Men at Forty" l. 1 (1967)
“We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.”
“Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.”
“Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation.”
“Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.”
“Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.”

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