Posts from ‘December, 2008’

Lawrence Durrell Quotes

Share Old age is an insult. It’s like being smacked. Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were. I’m trying to die correctly, but it’s very difficult, you know. They flower spontaneously out of the [...]

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Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Share Nature herself makes the wise man rich. The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed. No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but [...]

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Paulo Coelho Quotes

Share The biggest mistake of the man is that he thinks he doesn’t deserve the good and the bad things from his life. You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. They were seeking out the treasure of their destiny, without actually [...]

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Paul Cezanne Quotes

Share Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations. You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest. The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. With a painter’s [...]

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Katherine Dunn Quotes

Share Here are of our favorite quote from American Novelist Katherine Dunn. But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don’t write should be stomped on. I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object. I have been [...]

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Change Quotes and Sayings

Share Life would have been static if not for change.It is what keeps us going and it is Change that Changed the history of America. Here are some quotes about it by some famous people Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve [...]

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Childhood Quotes

Share Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood. ~Benjamin Franklin Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood. ~William H. Macy The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic. ~Bill Cosby Children have never been [...]

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