"This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world."

-- Haruki Murakami

#Secret Quotes #World Quotes #Antiques Quotes

“Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If youâ€™re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If youâ€™re not an artist, at least you can do a good dayâ€™s work.”
“I wonder why people use only walls for hanging pictures.”
“Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church. Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.”
“And Ive had vocal training on and off for years.”
“When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties. That man will become Grand Vizier or Pope.”
“Sorrow is God's plowshare that turns up and subsoils the depths of the soul, that it may yield richer harvests. If we had never fallen, or were in a glorified state, then the strong torrents of Divine joy would be the normal force to open up all our souls' capacities; but in a fallen world, sorrow, with despair taken out of it, is the chosen power to reveal ourselves to ourselves. Hence it is sorrow that makes us think deeply, long, and soberly.”
“I was in a hardcore band that had no melody, no chance of finding any success, and I was just trying to figure out what the hell I was going to do with my life. And that came out and changed my life forever - on an artistic level, and a lyrical level, for sure.”
“One writes what one lives, even if not in a literal way. Someone who has gone through an unhappy love tends to describe unhappy loves, even if they have nothing to do with their own.”

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