"Actually, time and time again people always come back to my early, more innocent stuff, and say, "I kind of prefer that." I could go back to writing that and probably make more people happy, but it just doesn't feel like the right thing to do. I don't want to take the lazy route."

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Source : Interview with Nitsuh Abebe, pitchfork.com. November 10, 2008.

Herbert

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Lazy Quotes

“God has loved us in spite of us.”
“The mind grows by taking in, but the heart grows by giving out.”
“Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.”
“I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.”
“However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we review our own lives, overcome fear, and begin the process of reconstruction.”
“Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities.”
“I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.”
“Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all.”

Source : George Rodrigue (1999). “Blue Dog Man”, Stewart, Tabori and Chang

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