"You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way ... people look at reality, then you can change it."

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Source : Jimi Hendrix (2013). “Starting At Zero: His Own Story”, p.230, A&C Black

James A. Baldwin

#Change Quotes #Writing Quotes #Reality Quotes

“Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.”
“When I told my wife UConn would win the Big East tournament, she wanted to know why a team from Alaska got into the Big East tournament.”
“Gather up your fighting spirit or the disease will deafeat you!”
“The moon was so young, so strange, even as a young girl who is dreaming and is afraid to tell her dreams; and it was shining only for itself.”

Source : Leonid Andreyev (2005). “The Crushed Flower and Other Stories”, p.29, 1st World Publishing
“One of my favorite things about animation is that the boundaries are as limitless as our imaginations. If we can dream it, we can make it. And if we do it well, audiences will believe it wholeheartedly.”
“I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M.”
“The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy.”
“I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had, had been recognized.”

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