"All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure."

-- Peter Carey

#Hero Quotes #Stories Quotes #Crafts Quotes

“I get scared when I think I'm going to miss my flight. I get obsessed when I actually miss a flight.”
“I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I'm trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me.”
“Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.”
“Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.”

Source : Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr
“When I had spent a few days without thinking, without doing anything, I would feel a sudden urge to paint. Then I would set up my easel in full sunshine.”
“Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.”

Source : Jean-Philippe Rameau (1971). “Traite de l'harmonie reduites a ses principes naturels”, p.35, Courier Corporation
“Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. We've done just what we set out to do. Thanks to the lovers, the dreamers and you.”
“We will stand on principle or we will not stand at all.”

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