"The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving for art, the wit, paradox and beauty of shape, the longing to see a dramatic pattern and significance in our experience."

-- V. S. Pritchett

#Art Quotes #Hands Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions.”
“All singers, no matter how gifted, should always try to go improve. And all students begin in the same place despite the level of their talent. It's like bodybuilding: All people who train use similar exercises no matter how naturally physically endowed a person may be. I have worked with many of the most brilliant singers in modern music and it's always the case that they have a great deal of under-realized potential no matter how amazing their abilities.”

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“My heavenly citizenship makes the whole world a foreign mission field.”
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”

Source : Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby
“...[K]now that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful. A severed hand Is an ugly thing, and man dissevered from the earth and stars and his history... for contemplation or in fact... Often appears atrociously ugly. Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe....”

Source : Robinson Jeffers, James Karman, Una Jeffers (2009). “The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers: With Selected Letters of Una Jeffers”, p.65, Stanford University Press
“Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish.”
“People have defining moments, i suppose, especially when they're children.”
“When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.”

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