"You say fate is almost indispensable to literature - I think it's completely indispensable, at least in a novel, because a novel always has a plot. Even if nothing happens, even if someone just spends a day walking around Dublin, or whatever, there's still something going on."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Daniel Kehlmann

#Fate Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Plot Quotes

“When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing!”
“True love can exist only in freedom from possession.”
“Almost six years ago, before I was given the incredible opportunity to be in 'Leaving Las Vegas,' I was going through a long period of artistic confusion. I'd spent years doing work that hadn't pushed me enough, and I was beginning to wonder if I had any talent.”
“Music for us is about articulating the feelings you can't put into words.”
“Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?”
“It has been the sad experience of many that much of the best and the most beautiful is lost to those whose mental food consists exclusively of the sensational paper or the cheap novel, or of that frothy mass of waste material which is thrown up like scum upon the molten metal of life--novelettes, serials, and fragments of a type which neither teach the ignorant, nor strengthen the weak, nor develop the immature.”

Source : Charles Webster Leadbeater (2007). “Vegetarianism and Occultism”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.
“As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done”
“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”

Source : Jim Henson (2007). “Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider”, p.54, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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