Carravaggian Quotes & Sayings

But you know, my former life as a bibliophile, it possibly kept me from murdering somebody, myself included. it kept me from being an industrialist. it allowed me to endure some women that most men would never be able to live with. it gave me space, a pause. it helped me to write this. — Charles Bukowski

When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing. — Gerda Lerner

Life is about getting and sharing. The more you share, the more you get ... and the more you get, the more your sharing responsibility multiplies. — Israelmore Ayivor

By the end of the week, clouds darker still had arrived and with them hot, damp air. Turner could smell the coming storm. The darkness of it gathering an hour or so away, racing ahead of dusk - the edges of the cloud through the wide skylight, deep in the West. Bruised. Fractious. Rising up to smother the slowly sinking sun. And now it was all but upon him, this vast wave of vapour, tumbling overhead.
A deep violet shadow poured down through the glass, its false twilight drowning everything. There came the first shudderings of thunder. And, all around, a dangerous stormlight. Carravaggian. — John A. Scott

Definitely not a Gertrude. — Robert Liparulo

It wasn't awful to be a man's sex object if you wanted to be, if it made you feel good, if everyone was happy in the end. — Lacey Alexander