"Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)"

-- Mario Vargas Llosa

#Art Quotes #Character Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.”
“The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.”
“Industry is not a collection of machines and tools and buildings. It is a social entity that has the responsibility of realizing the happiness of those who work in it.”

Source : "The Americas: The Democratic Left". content.time.com. May 11, 1962.
“It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.”

Source : Kaye Gibbons (1997). “A Virtuous Woman”, p.25, Algonquin Books
“I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you and putting make-up on you and telling you when to wake up and when to go to sleep, holding your hand to cross the street. I can do it up to a certain point, and then I start to feel like a puppet.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I get so sick of people asking: "What's your demographic?" Or: "Oh we've got to aim this at..." No, you have to aim it at you. You do the thing you would love... make the thing you would love and be proud of. There's enough people in the world that, if you do that and do it well as a single vision, they'll go: "That's my favourite thing ever!"”
“I'm not going to talk like I know about politics, because I'm a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren't normally interested in politics.”
“Twitter is crack for media addicts,”

Source : "Stop the World" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. January 29, 2010.

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