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I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto. — Georg Baselitz

I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

She died praying that she might die. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

A freshet in the autumn does not compensate for a drought in the spring. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men! — Mary Boykin Chesnut

We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

When it comes to sex there are certain things that should always be left unknown, and with my luck, they probably will be. — Woody Allen

I can say that I have fallen deeper in love with you today, knowing the sort of man you are. — Charlotte Featherstone

Life has more in it than we think; it is all that we have, all that we know. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Women
wives and mothers
are the same everywhere. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more. — Rabindranath Tagore

Deflation is defined as a general decline in prices, with emphasis on the word 'general.' — Ben Bernanke

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

People froze you in place. More important, you froze yourself, often into a person in whom you truly had no interest. — Anna Quindlen

Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it? — Mary Boykin Chesnut

My parents had very strict rules for me. Rules like, I couldn't be home until a certain hour. — Emo Philips

My handwriting as an angsty teen was appalling, yet somehow better than it is now. — Anna Kendrick

Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

Hyrtacides pummeled his thighs and groaned and bit his lip and said: "O Father Zeus, you, even you, turn out to be a liar." [bk.12] — Homer

I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated. — Henry Giroux

A critic never fights the battle; they just go around shooting the wounded. — Tyne Daly

I am always on the women's side. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

Is anything worth it? — Mary Boykin Chesnut

Threatened men live long. — Mary Boykin Chesnut