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Will Cotton
"Failures in art usually lead to something else interesting."
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Will Cotton
#Art Quotes
#Interesting Quotes
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“Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.”
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“Let our hearts admit, “I am poor and weak. Satan is too subtle, too cunning, too powerful; he watches constantly for advantages over my soul. The world presses in upon me with all sorts of pressures, pleas, and pretences. My own corruption is violent, tumultuous, enticing, and entangling. As it conceives sin, it wars within me and against me. Occasions and opportunities for temptation are innumerable. No wonder I do not know how deeply involved I have been with sin. Therefore, on God alone will I rely for my keeping. I will continually look to Him.”
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“I cannot do politics under someone else's control.”
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“One doesn't accept bad challenges. Part of it is always the risk-taking without seeing that the risks are rational and the rewards are commensurate.. are more than commensurate.. with the risks.”
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“It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.”
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“It's rare that you get to read, let alone teach, an arbitrary canon of your choosing in a tight time setting, and I tore through a fairly wide range of Indian writers, some contemporary - like Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie - and others older, like R.K. Narayan. And I think what happened at that stage was that I was forced to take a position in my own writing style that was more fixed, as opposed to reading a book at a time and defining myself in opposition to or in awe of it.”
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“The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?”
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“Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.”
