- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only Quotes
On narrowed choices and the one option that remains.
The word 'only' frames very different ideas here: a single film genre praised for its originality, a physicist's account of shifting foundations, and a stated view on Cold War-era power struggles across Europe. For more, see our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every child is innocent because it has not been tempted, but only when we have been tempted and have remained pure, or when we have fallen, repented and reformed, are we virtuous.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.
- Appeared
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.
- Continuity
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- Nov 07, 2020
A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.
- Complicated
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.
- Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.
- Nov 07, 2020
The only situation that I can't be in favour of is the lack of respect to human rights in Venezuela.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
As writers, we only aim to please. Or we aimed to please as children, which is why we became writers.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gianni Agnelli was a sharp mind, and most of his interviews carried meanings between the lines that only now are fully readable.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking!
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020