"The very act of committing an experience to the page is necessarily an act of reduction, and regardless of craft or skill, vision or voice, the result is a story beholden to and inevitably eclipsed by source material."

-- Bret Anthony Johnston

#Skills Quotes #Voice Quotes #Vision Quotes

“The only unifying thought is one of LOVE.”
“On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political ***** : lies , distortions, and half-truths half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.”
“Gratitude not only encourages our hearts, it produces peace. And we could all use a little more peace these days.”
“When you close the door of your mind to negative thoughts, the door of opportunity opens to you.”

Source : Napoleon Hill, Judith Williamson (2008). “Timeless Thoughts for Today”, p.15, Jaico Publishing House
“Today, everybody is always rushing. Designers have to make collections one after the other. Actresses have to make movies one after the other. They have to do all that in order to still be there - to still be out there. So to step away and be absent and to lose yourself completely and to really come back and find yourself again - that's something quite rare.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure.”

Source : Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.9, Pickle Partners Publishing
“I've never really been a part of anything but my own project.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.”

Source : Luce Irigaray (1993). “An Ethics of Sexual Difference”, p.5, Cornell University Press

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