"There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you."

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Source : Martin Scorsese's Commencement Address at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2016.

Martin Scorsese

#Disappointment Quotes #Way Quotes #Force Quotes

“Every story, each poem that a person shares, each voice that speaks against menstrual taboo, inspires me.”
“It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.”
“What the thinker thinks, the prover proves”
“Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism.”
“Night and day you are the one, Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.”

Source : "Night and Day" (song) (1932)
“I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.”
“The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer.”
“An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any motion at any speed is a succession of stillnesses; any section through an action will show just such a plane of stillness as this dark window in which your seeking face is mirrored. And in each plane of stillness is the moment of clarity that makes you responsible for what you do.”

Source : Russell Hoban (2002). “The Medusa Frequency”, p.80, A&C Black

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