"Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama."

-- Mark Rothko

#Art Quotes #Drama Quotes #Monsters Quotes

“In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it gave birth to the science of chemistry.”
“[On retirement savings:] Gone today, here tomorrow.”
“After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.”
“I'm an old man, and I want to lay out what I think I understand. With poems like "Traitor," I'm examining my feelings, my convictions, my understanding of the world, and testing whether they're really true. So that when you hang your holster up, you can make a judgment on whether you have any integrity at all. That's what I care about. That's why I wrote it. If I can't write that poem, then I've got it wrong somehow.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“Learning unconditional love helped me have healthier relationships, including my current marriage.”
“If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities: the quick exchange, the fastness of language and style, craftiness, the mixing of people and crossing of borders, imagination.”
“When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.”

Source : Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.69, Pan Macmillan
“Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the State [People's Republic of China].”

Source : "Opinion: Corruption as China's top priority" by Jaime A. FlorCruz, edition.cnn.com. January 7, 2013.

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