"Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time."

#Time Quotes #Art Quotes #Secret Quotes

“It's easier to be old than young. You make just as many blunders, but you've become much more adept at not recognizing them.”
“An easy thing, O Power Divine, To thank thee for these gifts of Thine, For summer's sunshine, winter's snow, For hearts that kindle thoughts that glow...”
“Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.”
“Writing is thinking and thinking is hard work.”
“I'm a running coach and I am going to continue to run, but I would hope that we are better defensively.”
“If you are living for an ideal and driving yourself as hard as you can to be perfect - at your job or as a mother or as a perfect wife - you lose the natural, slow rythmn of life. There's a rushing, trying to attain the ideal; the slower pace of the beat of the earth, the state where you simply are, is forgotten”
“The Bible is still the only dirty book I've ever read, at least in its current incarnation as a weapon of the homophobes. Bible scholarship keeps trying to catch up, proving that all the hatred of gay is just stupid translation, though the snake-oil preachers don't want to hear it.”

Source : Paul Monette (2017). “Reflections: The World of Paul Monette”, p.33, Open Road Media
“Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems.”

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