Frances Lear quotes

Frances Lear quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
“Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.”
“I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2007). “In the Company of Ogres”, p.133, Macmillan
“God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.”
“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”
“Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isnâ€™t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.”
“I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten.”
“[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.”
“How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye, notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than 'rotten to the very core'?”
“Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.”

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