#iv

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#art #conception #contemporary #decorative #deny

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#divorced #i #kids #live #parents

The naked thing was short-lived. It was only around for about six months because we thought it was shocking. Once people expected us to do it we kind of never did it again. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#again #around #because #did #expected

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them. ↗

— Horace

#ears #entrusted #gossips #hear #inquisitive

Whatever advice you give, be short. ↗

— Horace

#give #short #whatever #you

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity. ↗

— Horace

#blood #brave #bravely #courage #crimson

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. ↗

— Horace

#crosses #hour #like #living #out

I strive to be brief but I become obscure. ↗

— Horace

#brief #i #obscure #strive

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back. ↗

— Horace

#constantly #drive #may #nature #out

And often the worst thing wasn't the victims--they were dead, after all, and beyond any more pain. The worst thing was those who loved them and survived them. Often the walking dead from now on, shell-shocked, hearts ruptured, stumbling through the remainder of their lives without anything left inside of them but blood and organs, impervious to pain, having learned nothing except that the worst things did, in fact, sometimes happen. (Mystic River) ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#shell-shocked #survivors #the-walking-dead #death