"Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human being."

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Source : Silvano Arieti (1976). “Creativity: The Magic Synthesis”, Basic Books (AZ)

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“I don't want to be precious or weird . It's lovely to be recognized by people who like your work, and it's not as if I've done a Marvel movie. People say that with great power comes great responsibility, but it's more like shitty things will happen if you take certain jobs.”
“If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.”

Source : Herman Koch (2012). “The Dinner”, p.11, Atlantic Books Ltd
“Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.”
“Money was their God; work their religion ...”
“Ageism is the racism of the gay world. We really believe that age-and all of our fears that it carries-will "rub off" on us, the way that racists once believed blackness would.”
“What we see in the outer is but a reflection of the inner, because we surround ourselves with a picture of our own beliefs. In other words, we manifest in general what we seriously think and believe. So if we want to find out what our habitual thinking is like, we have but to look around us and ask ourselves what we really see.”

Source : Emmet Fox (1952). “Stake your claim”, Harpercollins
“That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.”
“I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.”

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