“Miró hated for this routine to be interrupted by social or cultural events. As he told an American journalist, “Merde! I absolutely detest all openings and parties! They’re commercial, political, and everybody talks too much. They get on my tits!”
― Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
― Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
“Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.”
― Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
― Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
“How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.”
― Death on the Nile
― Death on the Nile
“One should be able to say anything to a close friend, he reflected, and yet part of friendship was knowing what not to say and when not to say it,”
― The Cat Who Wasn't There
― The Cat Who Wasn't There
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