"The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness."

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Source : Garry Wills (1979). “Confessions of a conservative”, Doubleday Books

Garry Wills

#Loneliness Quotes #Artist Quotes #Creating Quotes

“I learn new things all the time.”
“It's about the journey--mine and yours--and the lives we can touch, the legacy we can leave, and the world we can change for the better.”
“Any change of my style, the way I've played for 10 years, will not be a drastic one. Yes, I've always given as good as I've got; as a forward you have to do that because, if you don't look after yourself, you might find yourself being thrown in a hole and buried.”
“And even though I did not reach the NFL, I sometimes think I got more from persuing that dream, and not accomplishing it, then I did from many of the ones I did accomplish.”
“I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again.”

Source : Michelle Hodkin (2013). “The Evolution of Mara Dyer”, p.348, Simon and Schuster
“The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.”
“We are bound to expire. Even metal which is sturdiest, rusts. Even oxygen, the breath of life, soon transpires.”
“You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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