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A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter. ↗

There's been a lot of coming home in the early mornings after funny nights out, having bizarre sandwiches in bed. ↗

#bed #been #bizarre #coming #coming home

Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#because #cannon #early #early age #feel

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#believe #clearly #clemency #forgive #great

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#brings #conversation #dearly #essentials #how

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds. ↗

— John Henrik Clarke

#brought #conquerors #control #framework #hand

Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894. ↗

— Albert Claude

#bodies #detected #diameter #early #half

We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#anywhere #arriving #company #having #mind

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career. ↗

— Dabney Coleman

#career #early #extra #extra money #had

In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#early #early stages #insomnia #oasis #refuge