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Read quote“And that the point of life could be to make life better doesn't seem to me too mysterious.”
Read quote“There is nowhere one needs to hide but in one’s own heart.”
Read quote“Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it.”
Read quote“You just have to get started.”
Read quote“The American mind must reckon with a fundamentally changed Negro.”
Read quote“I think, honestly, I regret joining the rat race.”
Read quote“I don’t think about it, because when I’m working, I’m totally involved with my work.”
Read quote“قلما طار اسم الشاعر في حياته فوقع بعد مماته.”
Read quote“Comedy is all about timing.”
Read quote“Je n’ai pas envie d’être confortable.”
Read quote“om hon i sitt yrkesliv lyckades leva upp till detta öknamn hade hon privat alltid haft avsevärda svårigheter att motsvara en sådan beskrivning.”
Read quote“Who knows if these very pictures, now painted for maharajas, will not find their way to the museums one day.”
Read quote“The biggest commercial opportunity which the world has seen is the decarbonising of our planet.”
Read quote“The poem conventionally brings its own music.”
Read quote“Do what you want to do. Do what you like to do.”
Read quote“My works have always sought to move between the real and the imaginary.”
Read quote“I will eat my hat if this team doesn’t win the World Cup!”
Read quote“Liber hic, Lector candide, posthumus P. Matthaei Riccii partus.”
Read quote“¿De que sirven los pueblos arruinados?, ¿De qué los países fértiles sin agricultores?, ¿De que las minas poderosas sin operarios?”