"I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write."

-- Haruki Murakami

#Writing Quotes #Artist Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I’ve been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me.”

Source : "Fictional character: Narrator". "Sans Soleil", www.imdb.com. 1983.
“The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled tones as they did in summer; they talk in a different leaf-language now. The wind moves through the boughs like fingers drawn across the strings of a harp filling the air with the harsh dry sound of sapless leaves. It is the main theme of the autumn music, this murmuring counterpoint of dead leaves.”

Source : Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”
“Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.”

Source : "Same-sex marriage debate a model" by Mark Udall, www.politico.com. October 16, 2012.
“Love and happiness remind me of sticky peanut butter. When you spread them around, you can't help but end up getting some on yourself!”
“Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend.”
“He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.”
“I'm not a good guitar player.”
“On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.”

Source : Maria Monk, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (1851). “Awful disclosures”, p.41

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