#not

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#any #attempt #character #deny #french

Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#approaching #been #big #big city #city

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. ↗

— Horace

#grants #hard #hard work #life #mortals

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement. ↗

— Horace

#art #book #briefly #call #great

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do. ↗

— Horace

#cannot #irritation #prompted #restrain #temper

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. ↗

— Horace

#every #nothing #point #point of view #view

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. ↗

— Horace

#been #cannot #escape #once #recalled

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. ↗

— Horace

#experience #instruction #life #name #parent

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death. ↗

— Lena Horne

#angry #because #death #feel #just

I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear. ↗

— Jane Horrocks

#i #just #just do it #music #note