#vince

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Westcliff thinks that St. Vincent is in love with you.” Evie choked a little and didn’t dare look up from her tea. “Wh-why does he think that?” “He’s known St. Vincent from childhood, and can read him fairly well. And Westcliff sees an odd sort of logic in why you would finally be the one to win St. Vincent’s heart. He says a girl like you would appeal to…hmm, how did he put it?…I can’t remember the exact words, but it was something like… you would appeal to St. Vincent’s deepest, most secret fantasy.” Evie felt her cheeks flushing while a skirmish of pain and hope took place in the tired confines of her chest. She tried to respond sardonically. “I should think his fantasy is to consort with as many women as possible.” A grin crossed Lillian’s lips. “Dear, that is not St. Vincent’s fantasy, it’s his reality. And you’re probably the first sweet, decent girl he’s ever had anything to do with.


Lisa Kleypas


#fantasy #friendship #innocence #lillian-bowman #love

Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.


Carter G. Woodson


#even #inferiority #must #places #schools

The biggest spur to my interest in art came when I played van Gogh in the biographical film Lust For Life. The role affected me deeply. I was haunted by this talented genius who took his own life, thinking he was a failure. How terrible to paint pictures and feel that no one wants them. How awful it would be to write music that no one wants to hear. Books that no one wants to read. And how would you like to be an actor with no part to play, and no audience to watch you. Poor Vincent—he wrestled with his soul in the wheat field of Auvers-sur-Oise, stacks of his unsold paintings collecting dust in his brother's house. It was all too much for him, and he pulled the trigger and ended it all. My heart ached for van Gogh the afternoon that I played that scene. As I write this, I look up at a poster of his "Irises"—a poster from the Getty Museum. It's a beautiful piece of art with one white iris sticking up among a field of blue ones. They paid a fortune for it, reportedly $53 million. And poor Vincent, in his lifetime, sold only one painting for 400 francs or $80 dollars today. This is what stimulated my interest in buying works of art from living artists. I want them to know while they are alive that I enjoy their paintings hanging on my walls, or their sculptures decorating my garden


Kirk Douglas


#appreciation #art #books #iris #irises

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.


Irving Layton


#clever #convince #inferiors #one thing #only

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.


Walter Legge


#arts #committees #convinced #i #i am

It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains.


Pierre Loti


#been #central #children #country #eagerly

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.


Barack Obama


#action #am #america #carried #convinced

I am convinced we shall succeed. I have faith in this country, because I have faith in its people.


Horst Koehler


#because #convinced #country #faith #i

I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.


Walter Kohn


#attainment #because #board #convinced #early

I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.


Keith Urban


#country #country music #genuine #heart #i