"Art is a form of exploration, of sailing off into the unknown alone, heading for those unmarked places on the map. If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world of adventure, of stories, of literature itself?"

-- Michael Chabon

#Art Quotes #Children Quotes #Adventure Quotes

“Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.
“The more we as a society make women's sex lives seem like a secret, the more hostile that becomes. Because when you get into that cycle of thinking, no matter what you're doing, you feel shameful about it, because there's no way to talk about it. I think that through talking about it and sharing stories you realize the things you may have felt shameful about are totally normal and totally OK. Everyone's normal in their own way. You can only come to that realization if you're having these conversations, and learning what normal is for other people.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“I've parked my solo thing in a lay-by and jumped in another vehicle and I'm in that now.”

Source : Source: www.digitalspy.com
“As I get older I find that the friendships that are the most certain, ultimately, are the ones where you and the other person have made substantial amounts of money for one another.”

Source : Jonathan Lethem (2005). “Men and Cartoons”, p.58, Vintage
“The history of society is the history of the inventive labors that man alter man, alter his desires, habits, outlook, relationships both to other men and to physical nature, with which man is in perpetual physical and technological metabolism.”
“Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.”
“I'm really grateful for how my career has unfolded.”
“And I saw darkness for weeks. It never dawned on me that I could come out of it, but you heal. Nature heals you, and you do come out of it. All of a sudden I saw a crack of light ... then all of a sudden I saw another crack of light. Then I saw forms in the light. And I recognized that there was no darkness, that in darkness there'll always be light.”

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