Elizabeth Borton de Trevino quotes
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“The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again.”
-- Elizabeth Borton de TrevinoSource : Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, Prentice Hall PTR, Prentice-Hall, inc (2000). “I, Juan de Pareja”
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“And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds?”
-- Elizabeth Borton de TrevinoSource : Elizabeth Borton de Treviño (1999). “I, Juan De Pareja”, Turtleback Books
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“Now I had lived long enough and had heard enough from urchins my age and from other slaves, to distrust the person who calls himself merciful, or just, or kindly. Usually these are the most cruel, niggardly and selfish people, and slaves learn to fear the master who prefaces his remarks with tributes to his own virtues.”
-- Elizabeth Borton de TrevinoSource : Elizabeth Borton de Treviño (1999). “I, Juan De Pareja”, Turtleback Books
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“But Time is a great traitor who teaches us to accept loss.”
-- Elizabeth Borton de TrevinoSource : Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, Prentice Hall PTR, Prentice-Hall, inc (2000). “I, Juan de Pareja”
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“Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family.”
-- Elizabeth Borton de TrevinoSource : Elizabeth Borton de Treviño (1977). “The hearthstone of my heart”, Doubleday Books
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“I was like many another who starts an intrigue timidly. Once into it, I had to go on, and therefore I had to harden my sensibilities.”
-- Elizabeth Borton de TrevinoSource : Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, Prentice Hall PTR, Prentice-Hall, inc (2000). “I, Juan de Pareja”
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“Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.”
-- Elizabeth Borton de TrevinoSource : Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, Prentice Hall PTR, Prentice-Hall, inc (2000). “I, Juan de Pareja”
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.”
Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc
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“Love overcomes hate. Love has no color. Love has no orientation. All is love.”
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