"... Rembrandt is not a painter at all. He is a creator, who creates his beings, three dimensional living beings, on a two-dimensional flat surface which acts as a mute, and enforces silence on them."

-- Sylvia Townsend Warner

#Two Quotes #Silence Quotes #Three Quotes

“World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps”

Source : Rohinton Mistry (2008). “Tales from Firozsha Baag”, p.117, Faber & Faber
“Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom.”

Source : Mat Johnson (2011). “Pym: A Novel”, p.8, Spiegel & Grau
“The history of paper money is an account of abuse, mismanagement, and financial disaster.”
“I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn't write no one would want me to talk anyway.”
“It's not the future I'm talking about, I'm talking about tomorrow.”
“Whatever you are holding onto in this life, hold it loosely so it wonâ€™t hurt when the Lord has to pry your fingers open to take it away.”
“Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something-an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.”
“The Bible is true, and some of it actually happened.”

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