#tis

In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction. ↗

— Tom Paulin

#british #carries #complicity #construction #creation

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. ↗

— Linus Pauling

#curiosity #greatest #life #satisfaction #sources

This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me what your position is. You've got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it. This is about being a complex human being in the world, not about finding a villain. This is no time for anything else than the best that you've got. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#artist #complexity #human-being #life #multiplicity

Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow. ↗

— Annie Smith Peck

#before #climbing #few #follow #going

Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#bipartisanship #cannot #forward #going #having

My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships. ↗

— Westbrook Pegler

#always #friendships #given #greater #hates

I happily cling to my guns and my God, even if President Obama thinks that that is a simpleminded thing in his elitist heart. ↗

— Rick Perry

#elitist #even #god #guns #happily

We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we? ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#artists #life #art

I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#artists #bunch #discovered #early #especially

Good artists copy; great artists steal. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#artists #philosophy #picasso #art