"Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this."

-- Jamaica Kincaid

#Crush Quotes #Travel Quotes #Boredom Quotes

“Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other.”
“The hardest part of art-making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done-over and over-and that means, among other things, finding a host of practices that are just plain useful.”

Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.61, Image Continuum Press
“God made only water, but man made wine.”
“South Africa was something that just kind of hit me.”
“Humility is the mark of a genuine disciple.”
“I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.”

Source : Connie Willis (2011). “Impossible Things”, p.89, Spectra
“Never lose a holy curiosity.”

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