"Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only question worth asking about a story â€” or a poem, or a piece of sculpture, or a new concert hall â€” is, Is it dead or alive?"

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Source : "Mavis Gallant obituary" by Christopher Hawtree, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2014.

Mavis Gallant

#Art Quotes #Life And Death Quotes #Sculpture Quotes

“I struggled in my mind with all kinds of defenses. Should I be hurt? Surprised? Should I laugh it off? I wanted to say something cruel to expiate my anger and to justify myself. But it's difficult with old friends; difficult because it's so easy. You know one another as well as lovers do and you have had less to pretend about. I poured myself a drink and shrugged. 'Nothing's perfect.”
“It's as if I've arrived in a place where it's all spirit and no body -- an overwhelming sense of calm . . . I actually began to feel blessed.”

Source : Gloria Naylor, Maxine Lavon Montgomery (2004). “Conversations with Gloria Naylor”, p.25, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“That's the beauty of life, the uncertainty that we experience, literally, as we go about our day-to-day activities. We're not certain of anything, so fear comes up very often. Fear comes naturally.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“Happy is the nation without a history.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 368-69, Trattato dei Delitti e delle Pene, 1922.
“You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe.”
“If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.”

Source : Marge Piercy (2016). “Gone to Soldiers: A Novel”, p.317, Open Road Media
“Sometimes I try to remember things my mother told me about the awful way he was raised. But why does he have to keep on going? Why would you take something bad out of your mouth and hand it to another, saying, Here, eat this?”
“I find that the whole weight of relieving human misery and distress falls on the shoulders of those Heretics and Infidels; and though great part of this distress has been occasioned by those ravening wolves' hopeful converts.”

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