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• I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the exciting stuff was happening elsewhere, so I took a holiday from painting for a few years.

  David Salle

  Art, Holiday, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The movie business was changing, I didn't want to turn 60 in the job. I picked 60 as an age where you are young enough to have a new life but not so young you can wait. And I had this incredible need: I had been so blessed in life and I wanted to give back. So I left Paramount with great joy, I have to say, and with great fondness for the memories I have in the movie business.

  Sherry Lansing

  Jobs, Memories, Blessed

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

  Charles Lamb

  Taken, Departed, Gone

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1857). “The Works of Charles Lamb: Complete in One Volume. With a Sketch of His Life, by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, D.C.L.”, p.608

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• New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.

  Fran Lebowitz

  New York, Cities, People

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• I left England when I was four because I found out I could never be King.

  Bob Hope

  Kings, Four, England

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• There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Book, Hands, Mind

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• Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.

  Alexander Pope

  Fighting, Choices, Dies

  Alexander Pope, Henry Francis Cary (1841). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by the Rev. H. F. Cary, Etc”, p.460

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• Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Devil, Adam

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.123

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• But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.

  Euripides

  Gone, Brightness, Woe

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• Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

  John Milton

  Men, Jewels, Treasure

  John Milton (1855). “The first four books of Milton's Paradise lost; with notes, by C.W. Connon”, p.101

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• The Bible promises us that Jesus will return to take His faithful followers with Him to live with Him in His glorious presence forever. Everyone else will be left behind to face God's wrath and judgment. If Jesus were to return today, do you know if He would take you with Him to heaven?.

  Billy Graham

  Bible, Jesus, Wrath

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• I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the far left and a deeper sense of rage and sorrow over the suffering they continue to produce all over the world.

  Joan Baez

  Peace, Suffering, Sorrow

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• You don't feel a thing. There's just something missing. And once it gets hold of you, something more is missing every day. Soon there won't be anything left of us.

  Michael Ende

  Missing, Feels

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• My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them.

  Jean Cocteau

  Color, Tiny, Use

  Jean Cocteau, Pierre Chanel (1988). “Past tense: diaries”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces.

  Tom Robbins

  Ideas, Personality, Grace

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.137, Bantam

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• I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me.

  Claude Monet

  Years, Despair, Needs

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• When I left the West Coast I was a liberal. When I landed in New York I was a revolutionary.

  Jane Fonda

  New York, West Coast, Revolutionary

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same; and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right.

  Freya Stark

  Cutting, Men, Winning

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.44, I.B.Tauris

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• I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  House, Magic, Bay Area

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• But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party.

  Robert Bly

  Party, Heaven, Delicacy

  Robert Bly (2013). “Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New Poems, 1950-2013: Selected Poems, 1950–2011”, p.167, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Children, Loneliness, Frail

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• Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a subject for study of the highest interest and so varied that I think I could be occupied for months without changing my place, simply bending a little more to the right or left.

  Paul Cezanne

  Thinking, Rivers, Giving

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• This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I had a great conceit to think that if all else failed I could always go to Hollywood. So when all else did fail I really went to Hollywood. And then I found out how wrong I was.

  David Niven

  Army, Thinking, Numbers

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• You can analyze a glass of water and you're left with a lot of chemical components, but nothing you can drink.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Thinking, Glasses, Water

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• Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Baseball, Thinking, Reason

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