"I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it."

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Source : Dani Shapiro (2013). “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life”, p.183, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Dani Shapiro

#Jobs Quotes #Artist Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's rules and organizations define as wrong or dangerous.”
“Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.”
“I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.”
“... I like the clubs because ... we have two or three acoustic guitars up there and we're not hard-core slamming or stomping through the music. We're singing it with intricate harmonies and really showing the craftsmanship.”
“Early Apple machines -- don't know how to answer what it was like since there were so few tools. Just had to keep debugging by isolating a problem, looking at memory in the limited debugging (weaker than the DOS DEBUG and no symbols) patch and retry and then re-program, download and try again. And again...”
“Some of these bulls are gonna' spin those cowboys so fast, they'll look like a frog in a blender.”
“I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.”
“I never feel like I am "using" a voice, rather I am listening to a voice and recording it as faithfully as it comes to me and as I can. I think that the female sex is much maligned, even in our supposedly sexually "open" society. It is the site of a woman's pleasure, and the source of (most) children's entry into the world, and an ancient symbol of power and fecundity, and we are directly or indirectly told in modern times that it's dirty, shameful, ugly, odorous, and to be hidden away.”

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