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Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#heard #indeed #minded #mistresses #often

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#child #children #consults #does #flatters

When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line. ↗

— David Del Tredici

#first #i #line #orchestra #people

Because that’s what unfaithfulness is, isn’t it? A cancer that’s always there in the back of your mind, eating away at the foundations of the relationship. It’s happened once, it could happen again, so you’re always looking for telltale signs or symptoms to show that it’s reappeared... ↗

— Matt Dunn

#relationships #cancer

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing. ↗

— Osip Mandelstam

#poetry #growth

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#heart #reading #growth

Sometimes a flame must level a forest to ash before new growth can begin. I believe Wonderland needed a scouring. ↗

— A.G. Howard

#splintered #growth

Reality holds no reverence for romance, and no remorse for the weak. Those who enter hell need know why they are there. ↗

— Doug Barber

#harley-davidson #motorcycle #people #photography #photography

I don't trust words. I trust pictures. ↗

— Gilles Peress

#photography

I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation. ↗

— Elliot Erwitt

#photography #photography