"We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our existence. Such stories, which explain how the world began or where the sun goes when it sets, we call myths. Mythology is a natural product of the symbolizing mind; poets, when not making up myths of their own, are still commanding ancient ones."

-- John Frederick Nims

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“the most important thing one can do for children is not accept the limitations they are so willing to impose on themselves.”
“But 'Cuban Linx' was a project that really needed to come, and I really wanted to get it off my chest because I know that the fans were really skeptical about it, like 'is this really gonna be what it's supposed to be?' So once everybody caught it for what it was and everybody was happy, that's mission accomplished for me.”
“Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak in an indirect way.Why does contemporary China lack good works that critique our current situation? Because our current situation may not be critiqued. We have not only lost the right to criticise, but the courage to do so.Why is modern China lacking in great writers? Because all the great writers are castrated while still in the nursery.”
“The sparrow still falls.”

Source : Mary Doria Russell (1996). “The Sparrow”, Random House
“Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.”
“A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.”
“Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further.”

Source : Bruce Barnbaum (2017). “The Art of Photography, 2nd Edition: A Personal Approach to Artistic Expression”, p.165, Rocky Nook, Inc.
“The student will try to defy the master. Always.”

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