"If a writer understands his work as something that originates with him but then, with any luck, gets away from him, then what he needs is someone who can grasp the potential of the piece and lead him to that higher ground."

-- George Saunders

#Luck Quotes #Needs Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance principles, which they themselves, upon their own topics, if they argue consistently, must allow to be solid and satisfactory.”
“Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too”
“When I say R&B is dead, I'm pretty much saying the creativity is gone.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an anticipated vision of what we could be if we would be what we might be.”
“The question is not Will you succeed? but rather, Will you matter?”
“I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.”
“A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost a matter of course”
“To say that truth is not out there is simply to say that where there are no sentences there is no truth, that sentences are elements of human languages, and that languages are human creations.~ The suggestion that truth~ is out there is a legacy of an age in which the world was seen as the creation of a being who had a language his own.”

Source : Richard Rorty (1989). “Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

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