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  • #1
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #2
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #3
    Gary Snyder
    “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
    Gary Snyder

  • #4
    Gary Snyder
    “Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.”
    Gary Snyder

  • #5
    Joyce Cary
    “To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.”
    Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth

  • #6
    Edgar Degas
    “Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into their hands! What shame! Should we even accept that they talk about our work?”
    Edgar Degas, Degas by Himself : Drawings, Paintings, Writings

  • #7
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, Ligeia

  • #8
    Mark Twain
    “What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”
    Mark Twain

  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
    Mark Twain
    tags: age

  • #10
    George Bernard Shaw
    “If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”
    George Bernard Shaw, Immaturity

  • #11
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #12
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #13
    “War does not determine who is right — only who is left.”
    Anonymous

  • #14
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

  • #15
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #16
    Robert Ardrey
    “There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either.”
    Robert Ardrey, The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations

  • #17
    Robert Ardrey
    “There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.”
    Robert Ardrey, The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations

  • #18
    Cesare Pavese
    “Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”
    Cesare Pavese, Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950

  • #19
    Cesare Pavese
    “We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
    Cesare Pavese

  • #20
    Cesare Pavese
    “Dawn's faint breath
    breathes with your mouth
    at the ends of empty streets.
    Gray light your eyes,
    sweet drops of dawn
    on dark hills.
    Your steps and breath
    like the wind of dawn
    smother houses.
    The city shudders,
    Stones exhale—
    you are life, an awakening.

    Star lost
    in the light of dawn,
    trill of the breeze,
    warmth, breath—
    the night is done.

    You are light and morning.”
    Cesare Pavese

  • #21
    A.J. Cronin
    “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
    A.J. Cronin

  • #22
    John Steinbeck
    “It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
    John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

  • #23
    Frank Zappa
    “who are the brain police?”
    Frank Zappa

  • #24
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “How the gods must have chuckled when they added Hope to the evils with which they filled Pandora's box, for they knew very well that this was the cruellest evil of them all, since it is Hope that lures mankind to endure its misery to the end.”
    W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook

  • #25
    Alexander Cockburn
    “No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.”
    Alexander Cockburn, Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era

  • #26
    Alexander Cockburn
    “Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:”
    Alexander Cockburn, Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era

  • #27
    Ring Lardner
    “They gave each other a smile with a future in it.”
    Ring Lardner

  • #28
    Michael Palin
    “You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.”
    Michael Palin

  • #29
    Claud Cockburn
    “Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.”
    Claud Cockburn

  • #30
    Lewis Carroll
    “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    Lewis Carroll



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