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1 " Magdalena pulls me away by the arm. “I am the stronger one of Titus and I,” she says over the marketplace din. “Woman are always the stronger sex.” She smiles to herself. “The trick is not appearing to be so. "
― Lynn Cullen , I am Rembrandt's Daughter
2 " First you must believe there is a soul.... If by a soul one means the creature who lives within each of us, a creature born loving, born joyful, but who with each worldly blow shrinks more deeply into its shell until at last, the poor desiccated thing is unrecognizable even to its own self, yes. I do. "
― Lynn Cullen , Mrs. Poe
3 " It is my belief that marriage is made holy by two souls in communion, not by the order of the law. "
4 " Tell me, who is behind a great woman? That's right. No one. She has to get there herself. "
5 " Greed and our food supply. It is greed that compels dairymen to skim every bit of goodness from milk to make other products and then to fill the swill left with chalk and sell it at profit. Greed tempts butchers to grind up the meat of sick cows with well ones and mix it into sausage along with offal and dung to extend the amount of 'meat' that they can sell. Greed motivates bakers to use flour devoid of the wheat germ and the nutritious outer husk and to add alum and chlorine to make bread look whiter and to cook faster. Americans are being poisoned, all in the name of profit, producing a weak-minded race of people who are given to lust and desire. "
6 " Whenever you see this much wealth, assume that someone dirtied his hands. Fortunes don't come to saints. "
7 " Desire inspires us to be our very best. "
8 " Pay attention to fate.... It will always have the last word. "
9 " I find that the thoughts spoken between the lines are the most important parts of a poem or story. "
10 " I had come to realize that you must do what you must for your children, even it if called for the sacrifice of your very soul. "
11 " To say that he 'nailed a subject's soul to the canvas' makes the assumption that we persons, as well as artists, can see one another's souls.Maybe we do. Maybe we all have the ability to perceive another's soul, and do so every day, only we take it for granted, and don't even know it when we're doing it. We call it knowing someone's 'character' or 'personality. "
12 " In painting, three things must be considered - the position of the viewer, the position of the object viewed, and the position of the light that illuminates the object. "
― Lynn Cullen , The Creation of Eve
13 " There is no more prideful creature than a man born poor. "
14 " Every heart, it have its own ache. "
15 " What did I expect him to say--that he would leave his wife? To do so was the province of fiction. Real life was not as easy as that. "
16 " The unspoken truth was that New Yorkers considered everyone in the world to be just a tad - well, more than just a tad, a lot more than a tad - old-fashioned compared with themselves. "
17 " First you must believe there is a soul.""Do you?""If by a soul one means the creature who lives within each of us, a creature born loving, born joyful, but who with each wordly blow shrinks more deeply into its shell until at last, the poor desiccated thing is unrecognizable, even to its own self, yes. I do. "
18 " The principled man is merely one whose ancestors were ruthlessly unprincipled, affording him the option of acting upon fine sentiments. "
19 " Tell me,” said Miss Fuller, “who is behind a great woman?” She looked around our circle, then stopped at me. “That’s right. No one. She has to get there by herself. "
20 " It is as if producing a creative work tears a piece from your soul. When it is ripped completely free of you, the wound must bleed for a while. How similar it is to letting go of a dream, your hope, or your heart’s desire. You must open up and let it drain. "
