"Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life."

-- Walter Annenberg

#Adversity Quotes #Tests Quotes #Inevitable Quotes

“If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life.”
“Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.”
“You can't take this speck of dust in this midst of all this incredible panorama of birth and complexifying and say...this is the only place that [life] happens. It's like turning your back on the whole idea of growth and evolution.”
“Coincidence means only a connection that's not seen. Roots meet underground.”

Source : Charlotte Armstrong (2018). “The Dream Walker”, p.109, Head of Zeus Ltd
“it is not given to everyone to shine in adversity.”

Source : Jane Aiken Hodge (1970). “Marry in Haste”
“"There is no analysis here," the most brutal of them wrote. Now I wonder if my papers lacked critical thought, or if it was really more about my inability/refusal to write in the convoluted style that they wanted me to. I remember the initial shock upon reading my peers' papers. I seriously could not understand them, and I couldn't understand why the writing had to be so unclear in order to be considered smart.”
“There was so much going on. I remember a very interesting dinner in the studio of [Robert] Rauschenberg. He had convinced Sidney Janis, Leo Castelli, and a third big gallery man to serve us, the artists, at the table. So they were dressed up as waiters, we were sitting at the table, and they were only allowed to sit down at the end of the table for the cognac. This is not possible now.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.”

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