"An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original."

-- Umberto Eco

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“Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen and raised in a sty, he would still find plenty of inspiration for his work. The only need is the eye to see.”
“Doors are going to open-doors you can't even imagine exist.”
“A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”
“Compassion can change a lot of things, including the world. Young people especially need to know that, because they're the future.”
“It was to Hofmeister, working as a young man, an amateur and enthusiast, in the early morning hours of summer months, before business, at Leipzig in the years before 1851, that the vision first appeared of a common type of Life-Cycle, running through Mosses and Ferns to Gymnosperms and Flowering Plants, linking the whole series in one scheme of reproduction and life-history.”

Source : Arthur Harry Church, Humphrey John Denham (1919). “Gossypium in Pre-Linnaean Literature”
“We have the talent, just not the money and not the audience. People in France don't really like fantasy. You need to go to Spain, England and Germany for that. Many of the people from my crew come either from Spain or England. But I hope to be able to work with them again and I wish to create European cinema on that scale. It could happen and attitudes may be changing. Animated fantasy movie Despicable Me was made entirely in France, so there is the talent here and now maybe the desire too.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.”

Source : 'The Lotos-Eaters' (1832) Choric Song, st. 1
“For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and Wrong, without the urge to promote Right and to destroy Wrong, is a gross immorality in itself, for morality lives and dies with the human endeavour to establish its victory upon earth.”

Source : Muhammad Asad (1993). “Islam at the Crossroads”, p.18, The Other Press

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