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George Bernard Shaw
“If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.”
George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw
“Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable.”
George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw
“HIGGINS
I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical. Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

PICKERING
At what, for example?

HIGGINS
Oh, Lord knows! I suppose the woman wants to live her own life; and the man wants to live his; and each tries to drag the other on to the wrong track. One wants to go north and the other south; and the result is that both have to go east, though they both hate the east wind.”
George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

Pablo Picasso
“To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today that it ever was.”
Picasso

Simone Elkeles
“Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.”
Simone Elkeles, How to Ruin Your Boyfriend's Reputation

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