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Quote by Jock Sturges

“There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed.”

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Jock Sturges is a renowned photographer known for his unique style and profound understanding of portrait photography. His work often focuses on children and adolescents, capturing their innocence and growth through delicate lenses. more

“I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical and psychological change. If I'm able to make pictures of children that are so real, as you follow the children over the years in any given book, and in subsequent books they get older and older and grow up, perhaps there might be something cautionary in that visual example. Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.”

Ifs Years Children Book Real Might Happens Able Given Grows Growing Up Greater Example Psychological Visuals Fascinated

Author:Jock Sturges

“You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.”

Vote Novelists Your Favorite

Author:Stephen Vizinczey

“Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.”

Want Virtue Train Philosopher Insight Consistent Consistently Consistency

Book:Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

Source: Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

“Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.”

Play Fire Fingers Great Writers

Book:Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

Source: Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

“The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.”

Inspirational Race Ignorance Health Genius Truth Is Medicine Survived

Book:Truth and Lies in Literature, A Writer's Ten Commandments: (Revised and Extended edition)

Source: Truth and Lies in Literature, A Writer's Ten Commandments: (Revised and Extended edition)

“The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.”

Ifs Needs Persons Real Character Names Imagination Virtue Bears Tests Vitality Real Person

Book:Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

Source: Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

“People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.”

People Inspirational Wells Children Humor Funny Asks Humorous Witty Ask Me Hilarious Accounting Accountants Hilarious Short Funny Kid

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

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