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- Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
- John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925), quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)
- When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980), The Devil and the Good Lord (1951) act 1
- A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980), Upon refusing the Nobel Prize, Oct. 22, 1964
- Existence precedes and rules essence.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980), Being and Nothingness (1943)
- The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes--ah, that is where the art resides!
- Arthur Schnabel (1882 - 1951), in Chicago Daily News, June 11 1958
- When I am asked, "What do you think of our audience?" I answer, "I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing."
- Arthur Schnabel (1882 - 1951), My Life and Music (1961)
- You don't understand. I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
- Budd Schulberg, On the Waterfront (film, 1954)
- Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal, Love Story (1970)
- Ah! the clock is always slow;
It is later than you think. - Robert Service (1874 - 1958), Ballads of a Bohemian (1921)
- Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
- Bill Shankly, In Sunday Times (UK) Oct. 4 1981
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