"I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading."

-- Daniel Pennac

#Reading Quotes #Sorrow Quotes #Hours Quotes

“The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation”
“A historic, in-depth study of what it means to risk one's life to be an artist. It is also a depiction of sexual confusions, ironic outrage and rage, and the shedding of society's armor to create a female knight in pursuit of a vision. Georgia O'Keeffe is the one woman who was there first in the world of art.”
“I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.”
“Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.”
“In the child, we see the grown-up. I see the problem differently.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.
“If you criticize what youâ€™re doing too early youâ€™ll never write the first line.”
“You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.”
“intelligence is intuitive you needn't learn to love unless you've been taught to fear and hate”

Source : Saul Williams (2009). “, said the shotgun to the head.”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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