"Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people."

-- Anne Roiphe

#Artist Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes

“I'm sure that being an applicant from the American School in Vienna helped get me into all seven colleges I applied to.”
“Men have begun to observe and classify, they turn from creation to Criticism . ... It is the Fashion to be a wit. ... one must be able to conceal indecency with elegant diction; manners are everything, morals nothing.”
“But the adjectives change,â€ said Jimmy. â€œNothingâ€™s worse than last yearâ€™s adjectives.”
“If you don't take your clothes seriously, why should your viewers take you seriously?”
“And when all is said and done, there is no greater success in the world than just being happy.”
“Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.”
“In the early '90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was moved by the writers, like Chinua Achebe, and I wanted to be able to write rhymes that were as potent as what I was reading.”
“The only thing worth globalizing is dissent.”

Source : Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.193, Haymarket Books

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