"Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo."

-- Archibald MacLeish

#Moon Quotes #Dying Quotes #Earth Quotes

“Russians understand the rhythm of despair.”

Source : Robert Massie; Suzanne Massie (1975). “Journey”
“Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.”
“I find it only natural for a storyteller to be interested in storytelling and, for anyone who spends the better part of his or her life writing fiction, it is hardly surprising that the pleasures, worries, and mechanics of fiction-making should enter the work.”
“When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.”
“I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.”
“I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.”
“I almost never these days sit down with a CD or my laptop and just listen to a piece with a score. I probably would do that while I'm exercising.”
“I certainly had no idea how little faith Christians have in their own faith till I saw how ill their courage and temper can stand any attack on it.”

Source : Harriet Martineau (2006). “Autobiography”, p.574, Broadview Press

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