"But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in books, and so didn't waste their time with them. Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing, I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Book Quotes #Believe Quotes #Writing Quotes

“It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Everyone is normal until you get to know them.”
“Every photograph is the result of a physical imprint transferred by light reflections onto a sensitive surface. The photograph is thus a type of icon, or visual likeness, which bears an indexical relationship to its object.”

Source : Rosalind E. Krauss (1986). “The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths”, p.203, MIT Press
“I really think that people are getting fed up with the computer generated music. I think it had a little time where it was new and it kind of worked, but it's so overdone that people are getting sick of it, and are turning back to real music.”
“In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.”
“Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.”
“If you walk with Jesus, he's gonna save your soul. You gotta keep the devil way down in the hole. He's got the fire and the fury at his command.”
“I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.”

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