"Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose."

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Source : Charles Du Bos (1940). “What is literature?”

Charles Du Bos

#Creative Quotes #Joy Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.”
“I've always been taught to completely ignore the camera.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'”
“When I lace my shoes I can't stand when they are twisted and dirty. It just looks sloppy. Even if it's a new pair of Chuck Taylors and the laces are all twisted it looks like you don't care.”
“I don't know what it is that makes a writer go to his desk in his shut-off room day after day after year after year unless it is the sure knowledge that not to have done the daily stint of writing that day is infinitely more agonizing than to write.”
“I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work.”
“Disruption never helps your cause. It just looks like you're afraid to have rational discussion.”
“Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much less logic.”

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