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“I wasn’t in a hurry. I never have to be in any particular place at any particular time. Let time watch me, not me it.”
― Flights
― Flights
“There are hardly any exceptions to the rule that a person must pay dearly for the divine gift of the creative fire.”
― Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
― Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
“It is not fashionable where I am not.”
― Letters of Dorothea, Princess Lieven, During Her Residence in London, 1812-1834
― Letters of Dorothea, Princess Lieven, During Her Residence in London, 1812-1834
“Those macho attitudes include many admirable things: a genuine love of courage, a surprising readiness to celebrate failure if it is bought with bravery, an unsparing sense of the fatality of human existence, a love of the small pleasures that ennoble it.”
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“Standing there on the embankment, staring into the current, I realized that—in spite of all the risks involved—a thing in motion will always be better than a thing at rest; that change will always be a nobler thing than permanence; that that which is static will degenerate and decay, turn to ash, while that which is in motion is able to last for all eternity.”
― Flights
― Flights
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