"You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with."

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Source : Source: www.compulsivereader.com

Robert Dessaix

#Art Quotes #Order Quotes #Stuck Quotes

“I knock people out. As soon as I land my shots on him, you will see the difference between class and hype. He's been built up and he believes the hype, but I will beat reality into him.”
“It is too late to start For destinations not of the heart . I must stay here with my hurt.”
“The main cause of failure is the inability to deal with self-doubt.”
“I don't ever want to do anything that's obvious, and I also want to find ways to do things that are extremely new and exciting and can make sense in bizarre ways. I always want things to make sense in really bizarre ways.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality.”
“Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys ought to be hung. Others, less irritable, think that gently chloroforming them would seem more humane. A great many good-natured folks contend that incarceration for a couple of years would prove the best way to dispose of them.”

Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1924). “Mother Mason”, p.34, U of Nebraska Press
“A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.”

Source : Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”
“The subconscious part in us is called the subjective mind, because it does not decide and command. It is subject rather than a ruler. Its nature is to do what it is told, or what really in your heart of hearts you desire.”

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