Gwen Davis quotes

“Aloneness, like life, becomes more interesting when you realize it's a present.”
-- Gwen Davis

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“Do not determine to change your life eventually. If you have decided to change your life, it is already changing.”
-- Gwen Davis

Source : Gwen Davis (1976). “How to survive in suburbia when your heart's in the Himalayas”

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“Collect treasures that have meaning only to you. Put them in a special place, and explain them to no one, except when you're giving interviews to Time magazine.”
-- Gwen Davis

Source : Gwen Davis (1976). “How to survive in suburbia when your heart's in the Himalayas”

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“Cultivate night-blooming jasmine near your bedroom window, and dream of men you've always longed for.”
-- Gwen Davis

Source : Gwen Davis (1976). “How to survive in suburbia when your heart's in the Himalayas”

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“Think of your husband as a lover from a previous life, and wonder what you did to deserve him.”
-- Gwen Davis

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“Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.”

“It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.”

“As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.86, Univ of California Press

“I like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste.”

“That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever?”

“Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.”

“A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.”

Source : "Alan Parker: 'I like the craziness of the film set'" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2013.

“Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!”

“Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.”

“The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know.”