"The great art of writing is knowing when to stop."

-- Josh Billings

#Art Quotes #Writing Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I tell my students): you could love someone all your life, but if you never say it how are they going to know? There comes a point when you have to say what you mean, which makes you scream louder when you dance.”
“People don't like to be lectured to, but if you can make them laugh, their defenses come down, and for the time being they've accepted whatever truth is embedded in your humor.”
“It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.”
“There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking.... It is always a hidden place, the way into it is not obvious, the geography is as much spiritual as physical. If you should happen upon it, your strongest certainty is not that you have discovered it but returned to it. In a single great episode of light, you remember everything.”

Source : Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Against the Day”, p.193, Penguin
“Surrender your will to Him. Unconditionally. Withhold nothing. Turn it all over to Him; all of your desires, wishes, dreams and hopes. Trust in Him. Trust Him who knows all things. Trust Him who has all power. Trust Him whose love for you is perfect. Trust Him, who alone suffered, paid, and atoned for you sins, and for your weaknesses as well. Trust Him that He will make of you immeasurably more than what you will ever, ever, in all eternity make of yourself. He will create of you a masterpiece. You will create of you only a smudge. You will create an ordinary man. He will create a God.”
“Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.”
“Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.”

Source : ALAN VALENTINE (1962). “1913 America Between Two Worlds”
“... he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass[es].”

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