"I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message in a bottle, a shout in the dark. It's saying, 'I'm here and I believe that you are somewhere and that you will answer if necessary across time, not necessarily in my lifetime.'"

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Art Quotes #Believe Quotes #Dark Quotes

“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
“Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.”
“In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible contradicts itself.”
“We'll do what life always does defy expectations.”
“Shooting is a lost art, but nobody wants to see nobody shoot all day. You want to see somebody break somebody off the dribble. That's today game, and that's what I try to do.”
“Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled.”
“Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.”
“the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.”

Source : Phyllis Rose (1993). “The Penguin book of women's lives”, Viking Canada

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