#iv

I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#anyone #divergent #father #i #know

As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#art #gallery #humans #kind #look

I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#impulse #self-destructive #sex #think

I actually would love to live in New York. But I need land; I need space. I'd love to move to a place where I could have a lot of land and a goat. ↗

— Lusia Strus

#could #goat #i #land #live

We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#book #consider #copy #even #gave

There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me. ↗

— Lusia Strus

#comfortable #go #grocery #grocery shopping #having

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. ↗

— G. I. Gurdjieff

#give #his #like #man #pleasures

The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America. ↗

— David Ben-Gurion

#einstein #europe #few #freud #generations

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian. ↗

— William Gurnall

#christian #duty #life #soldier #summoned

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined. ↗

— Philip Guston

#am #arbitrary #arrives #destined #falls