"No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us"

-- Simon R. Green

#Likes Quotes #Defining Quotes #Losing Quotes

“As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.”

Source : Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”, New York
“Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.”
“Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books.”
“Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.”

Source : Thomas Otway, Thomas Southerne, Mr. Joseph Trapp “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. V.”
“Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate”
“You're trying to make music, and then at the end of it you give reasons for everything.”

Source : "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.
“For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.”
“I sing of a woman with ink on her hands and pictures hidden beneath her hair. I sing of a dog with skin like velvet pushed the wrong way.I sing of the shape a fallen body makes in the dirt beneath a tree, and I sing of an ordinary man who is wanted to know things no human being could tell him.This is the true beginning.”

Source : Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press

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