"I donâ€™t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art."

-- Jennifer Egan

#Life Quotes #Art Quotes #Flames Quotes

“President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that.”
“There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words.”
“Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth.”
“The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much.”
“I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled home, my parents thought I was making it up. However, when my brother and I fabricated a story about an encounter with a bear, they believed that! So maybe I learned very early on that fiction was more interesting to listeners!”
“Cooking is a way of listening to the radio.”
“Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.”
“We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.”

Source : Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1974). “Toward the one”, HarperCollins Publishers

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