"Focusing totally on technique, you lose the essence and power of simplicity... The other extreme is just as bad; you see it in a lot of Modern works, where the concept is more important than the technique, resulting in very poor craftsmanship."

-- George L. Carlson

#Essence Quotes #Simplicity Quotes #Important Quotes

“If you spend seventy-two hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter.”
“Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time.”
“The beauty in the story is at one with suffering. That is also part of our upbringing - we don't think there could be beauty otherwise. Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further.”
“Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.”

Source : Irving Layton (1969). “The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes”
“My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations”

Source : Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.13, Pickle Partners Publishing
“We deny our Lord whenever, like Demas, we through love of this present world forsake the course of duty which Christ has plainly pointed out to us.”

Source : Reginald Heber (1838). “Sermons: On the Lessons, the Gospel, Or the Epistle for Every Sunday in the Year, and for Week-day Festivals, Preached in the Parish Church of Hodnet, Salop”, p.333
“I didn't want to be the girl who posed in 'Playboy' and then - by the way - made some music.”
“She was working to remind herself of who she was. She was working to remember that somewhere in another place entirely she was known and loved.”

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