"Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity."

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Source : Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.4, Grove Press

Mary Catherine Bateson

#Creativity Quotes #Way Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“Sometimes we praise the way things used to be in order to blame the present, and we esteem what is no longer in order to scorn what is.”
“This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.”
“I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.”

Source : Richard Adams (2009). “Watership Down: A Novel”, p.281, Simon and Schuster
“Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.”
“Every day two million Americans play tennis and one million of them lose.”
“We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live.”
“Beware of getting too comfortable! When we are comfortable, itâ€™s easy to forget other people.”
“Has there ever been anybody, real or fictional, whiter than Betty Crocker?”

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