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I didn't know that painters and writers retired. They're like soldiers -“ they just fade away.

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers -“ they just fade away.
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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  1. Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all. – Bob Dylan
  2. If you’re too open-minded your brains will fall out. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  3. [in the true mad north] of introspection,where ‘falcons of the inner eye’dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life’s memory of existence. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  4. All those practice fights when it was just us, two children pretending to be soldiers. Or two soldiers pretending to be children. – Sara Raasch
  5. Why do writers write? Why do actors act? Why do painters paint? It doesn’t pay much, unless you’re very successful. It’s who we are. – Lori Lesko
  6. As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul. – Wilfred Owen
  7. Distance can make a love fade, while closeness can make hate flare; as distance can make hate fade, while closeness can make love flare. – Anthony Liccione
  8. As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places. – Samuel Beckett
  9. Thy shalt not worship thy investment advisor, for if she were so smart she would be retired by now. – Steven J Lee
  10. And this title, retired Major Ryland, gives you authority over my MasterCard? – Billi Jean
  11. Micro: When his mind detached from his body he saw the murderer stab him repeatedly. Later, he told the detective – who retired. He blamed stress. – Anthony North
  12. May the sunshine ever greet youand sorrows flow away,May the knowledge flow within youand darkness fade away. – Munindra Misra
  13. And she shrank away again, back into her darkness, and for a long while remained blotted safely away from living. – DH Lawrence
  14. Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. – John Ciardi
  15. I’m completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues. – Don DeLillo
  16. Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance. – Paul Valry
  17. Watches have watch makers, paintings have painters, designs have designers, and creation has a creator, – Tony Evans
  18. Creativity without commercialism will result in unseen masterpieces by unknown painters. – Shriram Iyer
  19. Monza never had understood why getting out a tit or two made for a better painting. But painters seemed to think it did, so tits is what you got. – Joe Abercrombie
  20. Don’t worry about your future in the past,Otherwise the sense of enjoyment won’t last.By Vinay Chawla – Poignant Painters
  21. Earthworms cannot be painters. Those who live in the darkness can never perceive and appreciate the beauties of the light! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  22. If a thousand painters worked for a thousand years, they could not create a work of art as beautiful as you – Shannon Dermott
  23. Writers have to be tenacious to the point of being pathological. Rejection and criticism is assured. – Mary Lawrence
  24. For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation. – Plato
  25. As cities grow and technology takes over the world belief and imagination fade away and so do we. – Julie Kagawa
  26. These scars that we have… they don’t go away. They only fade with time, but they’re still hauntingly there. – Taylor Keys
  27. You may have some scars from the past but this will fade away in time. – Abegail O Salazar
  28. Is that the destiny of all friendships, no matter how good they are? To die out or fade away? To end? – Sara Zarr
  29. With time, the hurt would begin to fade away, but not the memories. – Anamika Mishra
  30. Words never fade away but echo on for eternity. Let your echo ring sweet. – Richelle E Goodrich
  31. He stroked her back and kept a fierce grip on her like she’d fade away into one of the thousands of ghosts in this cemetery. – Katherine McIntyre
  32. All memories fade away in the end. Then, only dreams are left. And because they are all we have, we confide our life’s worries to them. – Philippe Forest
  33. And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream. – Marcel Proust
  34. Loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they too, fade away. – Milan Kundera
  35. Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution. – Erin McCarthy
  36. Nature, take my breath with you; renew it with the wild breeze and fill my being up with so much soul, ego learns to fade away. – Nikki Rowe
  37. The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous – John le Carr
  38. Then this is how you do it,’ and kissed her slowly, letting time fade away. And he couldn’t remember any other kiss that felt quite the same. – ML Stedman
  39. Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away. – Lauren Bacall
  40. Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away. – Lauren Bacall

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