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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#always #artist #because #could #creative

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#feel #flee #goes #jump #object

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#boredom #die #foot #man #set

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening. ↗

— Daphne Zuniga

#apathetic #continue #homelessness #ignore #maddening

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#heavily #i #man #more #never

Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business. ↗

— Chubby Checker

#business #chicken #got #i

I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about. ↗

— Jung Chang

#accept #because #century #chinese #come

While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister. ↗

— Jung Chang

#economic #famine #i #mismanagement #more

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#awaken #best #books #his #interest

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#convictions #duty #entering #great #life