"The fire of love is drawn from the sky rather than the human mind."

-- Aleksis Kivi

#Love Is Quotes #Fire Quotes #Sky Quotes

“I was also always interested in the aesthetic realm - architecture and that kind of stuff - but music was my first love.”
“I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I'm lying in bed I think up stories. That's where I do a lot of my thinking. I also get a lot of ideas while I'm reading - sometimes reading someone else's stories will make me think of one of my own.”

Source : Scholastic Interview, www.scholastic.com.
“I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a coward, made a liar, made mean and slavish, accustomed to fawn and prevaricate, and "manage" by base arts a husband or a father,--I think this is worse than to be kicked with hobnailed shoes.”

Source : Frances Power Cobbe (1882). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”
“The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth.”
“My cage has many rooms.”
“The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society.”
“My goal was to do anything that would lead to a job. I know that writing would not lead to a job. It's too fancy for me. My biggest goal was to be an office receptionist, answer phones. I didn't expect to go beyond that.”

Source : "Anchee Min on Her Memoir, 'The Cooked Seed'". Interview with Kevin Nance, www.chicagotribune.com. May 11, 2013.
“Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.”

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