"From time to time it has struck me that as a writer, I've somehow managed to live my life as I had long ago dreamt of doing, based on the Tintin paradigm: on my toes, travelling, senses attentuated, everything just adventure and exploration, curiosity and problem-solving."

-- Luke Davies

#Art Quotes #Adventure Quotes #Long Quotes

“The truth is what hurts”
“Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain, you may be doing some good work.”
“As a composer, I believe that music has the power to inspire a renewal of human consciousness, culture, and politics. And yet I refuse to make political art. More often than not political art fails as politics, and all too often it fails as art. To reach its fullest power, to be most moving and most fully useful to us, art must be itself.”

Source : "Making Music in the Anthropocene". www.slate.com. February 24, 2015.
“Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.”
“Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!”
“To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times.”
“When I do things with people it's not with the hopes of them coming back because that would be a selfish reason for me to do anything.”
“Katarina Witt. She was the ultimate competitor. She would just stare down people before competition. She was relentless on the ice.”

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