"What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness."

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Source : "Kurt Vonnegut". Live discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. April 12, 2007.

Michael Dirda

#Kindness Quotes #Ambition Quotes #What Matters Quotes

“If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.”
“Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.”
“You know, it's hard to say what's going to happen in the future. But, if I stay healthy, I think I'll probably play until I'm about 40.”
“The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has in fact been followed throughout, the principle of one man one job, of minding one s own business , in the sense of doing the job for which one is naturally fitted and not interfering with other people.”
“Each unto himself has his own world that he looks out upon, and though someone else were to stand on the very selfsame inch of ground your feet were placed upon, guided by chalk marks, he would not see the same things you did.”

Source : Cornell Woolrich (2007). “Night Has a Thousand Eyes”, p.77, Pegasus Books
“Often I combine many sources to create one painting, so it is not usually one particular experience or moment that leads to its creation. I think most artists are just open nets and catch all sorts of inspiration along the way of our daily lives, and that all comes to together in strange and different ways in the studio.”
“You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.”
“I've given up on being accurately portrayed in the media.”

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