"We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive."

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Yvon Chouinard

#Stars Quotes #Believe Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“The advice that I can give anyone wanting to be in the biz: do all the work, learn your craft. There are no shortcuts. If you stay with it, you will get an opportunity. Whether you make the most of an opportunity depends on if you are prepared. Learn your craft, every aspect of it. Eat it, drink it, sleep it, then when you are the most prepared, you can make the most of it.”
“What are the questions you wish to ask?”
“In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.”
“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

Source : Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.151, Penguin
“I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.”
“If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying.”

Source : "Nhetembo".
“The ultimate intelligence of all things is your essence. Your mind is the universe. Your body is all things.”
“Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city.”

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