"I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the honesty of the story."

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Chris Ware

#Honesty Quotes #Real Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Whenever a treaty of peace is signed, God is present.”
“Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens.”

Source : Robert Bly (2011). “Kabir: Ecstatic Poems”, p.86, Beacon Press
“I'm not very enthusiastic about smaller nations forming their own states, particularly those in the West, where they would, after gaining 'independence', remain in the alliances that are oppressing and plundering the entire world: like NATO or the European Union. The breaking of the great country of Yugoslavia into small pieces was a hostile, evil design by the West. The dissolution of Czechoslovakia after the so-called "Velvet Revolution" was a total idiocy. But Catalonia, if it became independent, would become one of the richest parts of Europe.”
“gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you feel and live. A sound to rise you up again.”
“Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them.”
“Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life.”

Source : Eliza Haywood (1999). “Selections from The Female Spectator”, p.72, Oxford University Press
“I think my initial desire to start making art came from a desire and a need to communicate but not having anyone to communicate to.”
“One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.”

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