Mandy Kinor

“It's very easy to laugh at her but it is not easy to be as brave as she.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired, I give up. I am polite. I nod. I pretend to understand because I don’t want anybody to be hurt. That is the one weakness that has lead me into the most trouble. Trying to be kind to others I often get my soul shredded into a kind of spiritual pasta.”
― Charles Bukowski, Hollywood: A Semi-Autobiographical Novel About Adapting Barfly into a Screenplay and Surviving the Movie Industry

“with bad painters all you need to do is not look at them. but even when you have learned not to look at families nor listen to them and have learned not to answer letters, families have many ways of being dangerous.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“You see this creature with her kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion