"Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes."

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Source : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.9, Lulu.com

Coventry Patmore

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“I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told what to do by a British accent. That's why so many infomercials have British people.”
“But do you love me? If Erik were good-looking, would you love me, Christine?”
“You can't be everything to everybody, but you can be everything to somebody. Don't lose the ones you love trying to please the world”
“You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox.”
“I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.”
“I think it's always interesting how music means different things to different people, and people who overthink it are looking to in some ways show off with music, versus people who just respond to a song and decide to sing it.”
“Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and evil tendencies of man may have come about; but, in itself, it is incompetent to furnish any better reason why what we call good is preferable to what we call evil than we had before. Some day, I doubt not, we shall arrive at an understanding of the evolution of the aesthetic faculty; but all the understanding in the world will neither increase nor diminish the force of the intuition that this is beautiful and that is ugly.”
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.”

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