"People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work."

-- Tahar Ben Jelloun

#Artist Quotes #People Quotes #Creative Quotes

“I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way" .”
“Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.”

Source : Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.”
“If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.”

Source : William Dean Howells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)”, p.4038, Delphi Classics
“Actually, I am loathe to admit, but I also remember freshman year of Emory - and I'm so sorry to have to admit this - but there was a Domino's Pizza in Emory Village, where I went to college, and I was ordering a pizza.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“It is either Christ or chaos.”
“I think 'The Hunger Games' has a really powerful message about survival, and sacrificing for the ones you love. It's almost like a warning for us to not lose touch of our humanity. We live in a world in which we watch other's misfortunes for entertainment.”
“Study the history of revival. God has always sent revival in the darkest days. Oh, for a mighty, sweeping revival today!”

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