"Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities."

-- Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#Community Quotes #Leader Quotes

“My positioning with my investors was always, I need three to five years.”
“Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.”
“Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.”
“Some animals on Earth regurgitate as opposed to vomit, i.e., stomach contents flow up into the esophagus without any forceful abdominal contractions. What I experienced in zero gravity was similar to this, expulsion without the heaves.”
“Tradition, in its essence, is something simultaneously meta-historical and dynamic: it is an overall ordering force in the service of principles that have the chrism of a superior legitimacy (we may even call them 'principles from above').”
“We have no stronger ally anywhere in the world than Israel.”

Source : "Netanyahu, Obama meet at White House". www.cnn.com. March 24, 2010.
“If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Art does not organize parties, nor is it the servant or colleague of power. Rather, the work of art becomes a political force simply through the faithful representation of the spirit. It is a political act to create an image of the self or of the collective.”

Source : Lewis Hyde (2009). “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World”, p.258, Vintage

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