"While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. This creed is somewhat short, but it is long enough for this life, strong enough for this world. If there is another world, when we get there we can make another creed."

-- Robert Green Ingersoll

#Strong Quotes #Long Quotes #World Quotes

“It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares”
“Every painter must traverse for himself that distance from Paris to Aix (where Paul CÃ©zanne worked a lot, fh) or from Venice to Toledo (where El Greco painted a lot, fh). Expression is for one knowing its own pivot. Every expressor relates solely to himself - that is the concern of the individualist.”
“If war is glorified, it tends to eclipse the policies it is meant to serve.”

Source : Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.59, Broadview Press
“In a 22-page comic, figuring an average of four to five panels a page and a couple of full-page shots, a writer has maybe a hundred panels at most to tell a story, so every panel he wastes conveying a.) something I already know, b.) something that's a cute gag but does nothing to reveal plot or character, or c.) something I don't need to know is a demonstration of lousy craft.”
“I feel like you can have entertainment, and you can laugh, but during that period of time you can also think, and people should get upset. America is spending a lot of time and money pretending to be searching for people who we're not really searching for. That is enough to get someone angry.”
“The most important part of any relationship is allowing others to choose their own response to a situation, and of course this is the most difficult part.”
“Where do you put your attention? On fear or love? I wish the choice were made just once and not repeated every moment of the day.”

Source : Sophy Burnham (2011). “For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners”, p.50, Penguin
“Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.”

Source : Jonathan Carroll (2012). “Kissing the Beehive”, p.174, Open Road Media

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