"Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Life Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“Everything is about color. If you look at magazines and advertising and television, the thing you remember is the color.”
“What is life if a man cannot count on his friends when he has gone mad?”
“Even though there's an entertainment value to the film, I think it's very important because you can't really separate the impact of that political message from it. It's rare that you get films like that I think; that really have an important message and are also entertaining.”
“Silence is a great peacemaker.”
“The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off all pretentiousness and attitudinizing.”

Source : Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”
“illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness ...”
“I remember once visiting an outdoor exhibition of sculpture in Arnhem, the Netherlands. One of the artists had placed this notice at the base of a majestic beech: "Statues are hewn by fools like me: only God could make this tree." The Taoists looked at the inside of the tree. They saw God present, not as the super-sculptor, but as the primal force from which the tree drew its being and its specific form. Becoming aware of this divine origin was for them "great knowledge," to be distinguished from the "small knowledge" of our petty, every-day existence.”
“Some people want to amass a great amount of wealth and make a great looking obituary. I'm going to die with more money than is good to leave my son.”

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