#real

I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#big #communicate #head #i #light

I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#fantastically #i #i think #most #real

I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#afraid #always #been #beginning #form

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#blessed #eye #happen #keen #mind

If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh... or they'd lock each other up. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#everyone #just #knew #laugh #lock

You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#although #bit #bryan #cheesy #ferry

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#anyone #away #books #done #family

I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#been #being #i #i do #issues

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#center #children #decade #earn #elderly

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#awful #because #cancer #case #certainty