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I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#intended #old #paintings #read #sure

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#existence #exists #merely #philosopher #poet

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#extent #imagination #life #live #metaphysics

When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually paid attention to them? Maybe some people do, but I sure as hell don't. ↗

— Lev Yilmaz

#attention #bright #depressed #hell #i

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living. ↗

— James Gandolfini

#else #grown #grown man #living #make

Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#arizona #capital #constitutional #defendants #excepting

Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#curiosity #found #haven #i #intense

Respect... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique. ↗

— Annie Gottlieb

#other #person #respect #separateness #she

Know or listen to those who know. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#know #listen #those #who

Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#because #blinds #burn #fact #interesting