"The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies."

-- William Faulkner

#Mother Quotes #Art Quotes #Responsibility Quotes

“As a person, I take pleasure in receiving and sharing. As a perfumer, I like showing and convincing.... I'm quite simply following the trajectory of an artist, someone who seeks and, sometimes, finds.”
“What he [Bernie Sanders] does next will really determine whether he is blazing a trail that others can follow into office, or whether he is an exception to the rule.”
“A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.”
“The light of the moon is all we've got to go on...”
“What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.”

Source : Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.149, Wesleyan University Press
“I know of nothing more terrible than the poor creatures who have learned too much. Instead of the sound powerful judgement which would probably have grown up if they had learned nothing, their thoughts creep timidly and hypnotically after words, principles and formulae, constantly by the same paths. What they have acquired is a spider's web of thoughts too weak to furnish sure supports, but complicated enough to provide confusion.”

Source : Ernst Mach, Thomas J. McCormack (2014). “Popular Scientific Lectures”, p.288, Cambridge University Press
“I believe God wrote the Word in your essence. That's the genius of my Father. You are born knowing right from wrong. You don't need a book to tell you that!”

Source : "Eddie Griffin: Freedom of Speech". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2008.
“We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny.”

Source : David Richo (2007). “The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know”, p.18, Shambhala Publications

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