"When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives."

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Source : Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns”, p.152, Penguin

Mark Lawrence

#Running Quotes #Dark Quotes #Light Quotes

“A mother's love is like an island, In life's ocean vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter, From the restless, rising tide.”
“The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.”
“There are more fools in the world than there are people.”
“Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law, The work of heaven and of the first cause.”
“A temple is a place in which those whom He has chosen are endowed with power from on highâ€”a power which enables us to use our gifts and capabilitiesâ€”to bring to pass our Heavenly Father's purposes in our own lives and the lives of those we love.”
“Id love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!”
“In order to stay out of trouble I worked in industry. You can't even do that nowadays; there were all those factories.”

Source : Source: bluemesareview.org
“A key text for me is James Baldwin's essays. And, in particular, his essay Stranger in the Village. It's a text that I've used in a lot of paintings. The essay is from the mid-'50s, when he's moved to Switzerland to work on a novel, and he finds himself the only black man living in a tiny Swiss village. He even says, "They don't believe I'm American - black people come from Africa." The essay is not only about race relations, but about what it means to be a stranger anywhere.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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