"Anything I do, I learn about first. I am not in favour of improvisation; I believe in work and in learning"

-- Ferreira Gullar

#Believe Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Favour Quotes

“Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams.”
“I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me away from church and community worship to the internal journey. Before my recovery began, I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter.”
“Everybody has their own story; everybody has their own journey.”
“It's a lie, you know, to pretend that nothing is important to you. It's hiding. Believe me, I know because I hid for a long time. But now I won't do it anymore. The truth is bioluminescent. I don't lie, and I don't waste time on people who do.”

Source : Ellen Wittlinger (2012). “Hard Love”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
“What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.”
“The economic interpretation of history does not necessarily mean that all events are determined solely by economic forces. It simply means that economic facts are the ever recurring decisive forces, the chief points in the process of history.”
“Heard someone say, 'I can't wait until I can finally say I've made it.' The day you think you've 'made it' is the day you begin your decline.”
“I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life.”

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