Robert Breault Quotes

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• The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.
• There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.
• We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds.
• You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders.
• Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?
• It is a rare woman who can overcome her desire to remain pretty and allow herself to become beautiful.
• Skepticism is a religion very rich in evangelists but very short on saviors.
• Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.
• The trouble with having a body is that people know it's where you hang out and you don't get any privacy.
• Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences.
• I am a private person, but I will reveal this about myself: if you start massaging my shoulders, don't expect me to tell you to…
• If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.
• The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words....
• The trouble with not being into social networking is that people think you're anti-social when you're only anti-networking.
• What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.
• Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it.
• The problem with putting off things you've always wanted to do is that eventually you run out of always.
• If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently?
• Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.
• Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.

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