"The Magicians Apprentice was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system."

-- Trudi Canavan

#Balance Quotes #Lows Quotes #Ends Quotes

“Hunger's a great spur.”

Source : "To be and to pretend". Interview with Alastair McKay, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2005.
“It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application of science to the useful arts requires other abilities, other qualities, other tools than his; and therefore I say that the man of science who follows his studies into their practical application is false to his calling. The practical man stands ever ready to take up the work where the scientific man leaves it, and adapt it to the material wants and uses of daily life.”
“Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.”
“The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.”

Source : Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”
“The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being and which he has the power to place, to encrust, to impregnate into the pictorial matter of the painting.”
“Joy is the best makeup.”
“A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.”
“I am a blogger - that is an amazing thing for me, because it captures a moment in time every day.”

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