"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."

-- Gustave Flaubert

#Art Quotes #Politeness Quotes

“I wouldn't trust Newcastle's back five to protect my garden gnomes from squirrels.”
“'All the gods are one god and all the goddesses are one goddess, and there is one initiator.' The one initiator is one's own high self, with which the personality becomes more and more integrated as the path of spiritual evolution is followed.”

Source : Doreen Valiente (2018). “Witchcraft for Tomorrow”, p.25, The Crowood Press
“I hate sequels. They're never as good as the first book.”
“People keep a dog and are ruled by this dog, and even Schopenhauer was ruled in the end not by his head, but by his dog. This fact is more depressing than any other.”

Source : Thomas Bernhard (2013). “Concrete”, p.30, Faber & Faber
“Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.”

Source : Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden
“When a psychiatrist writes a bestseller, he is then urged to write a book of advice. But I think our culture's awash in advice. The problem is we don't know whether it applies to us or whether we're an exception.”
“Language is a machine for making falsehoods.”

Source : Iris Murdoch (1977). “Under the Net”, p.51, Penguin
“When my legs hurt, I say: â€œShut up legs! Do what I tell you to do!”

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