"Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else's work, not yours."

-- Cynthia Ozick

#Dedication Quotes #World Quotes #Form Quotes

“Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.”
“You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.”
“Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends. Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations.”

Source : Joyce Cary (1957). “THE HORSE'S MOUTH”
“A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes.”
“That is truth. In that truth, there is real happiness. And there is nothing that could disturb that happiness.”
“Beauty seen makes the one who sees it more beautiful.”
“Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.”

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