#like

When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out. ↗

— Frank Stella

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future. ↗

— Stendhal

#better #future #had #hope #lost

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore. ↗

— Stendhal

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It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#i #like #many #meet #used

Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#going #keep #like #pennant #season

Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you? ↗

— Casey Stengel

#born #did #dugout #guys #i

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't. ↗

— Isaac Stern

#mozart #music #shows #soul #x-ray

When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics. ↗

— George Stephen

#basics #books #came #decided #did

During that first year, I felt guilty that my wife was out working bringing in all our income, while I was at home playing on the computer, so I made myself treat writing like a job. ↗

— George Stephen

#computer #during #felt #first #guilty

Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#america #babies #big #countries #eating