Etretat Quotes & Sayings

One is too taken up with all that one sees and hears in Paris, however strong one is, and what I do here [in Etretat] will at least have the merit of being unlike anyone else, at least I believe so, because it will simply be the expression of what I, and only I, have felt. — Claude Monet

All human behavior, all human motivations, all man's hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind's tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction. — Robert A. Heinlein

Been brainwashed since age 2
I only had imaginary friends
And still do
And they hate you — Mac Lethal

Discipline, not the Muse, results in productivity. If you write only when she beckons, your writing is not yours at all. — Kenneth Atchity

Beside us lies a fair-headed recruit in utter terror. He has buried his face in his hands, his helmet has fallen off. I fish hold of it and try to put it back on his head. He looks up, pushes the helmet off and like a child creeps under my arm, his head close to my breast. The little shoulders heave. Shoulders just like Kemmerich's. I let him be. — Erich Maria Remarque

You don't have to be fast. But you'd better be fearless. — Christopher McDougall

I never get sick on airplanes, which is incredible. You're basically in a flying petri dish. — Danny Meyer

I intend to do a large painting of the cliff at Etretat, although it is terribly bold of me to do so after Courbet has painted it so admirably, but I will try to do it in a different way ... — Claude Monet

Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Dreams must be your own and smiles must be worth killer. — M.H. Rakib