"My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings"

-- Edvard Munch

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“Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.”
“There will be no white flag above my door, I'm in love and always will be”
“If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell.”
“I would love to be like Justin Bieber or Selena Gomez. They were catapulted into stardom when they were so young - like I was - and they still haven't gone down the wrong path and I hope neither or them will. I find that really inspiring.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.”
“Christianity is reasonable in virtue of the impossibility of the contrary.”
“I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.”

Source : Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.67, Open Road Media
“The only limit to your garden is at the boundaries of your imagination.”

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