"An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies."

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Source : Source: observer.com

Domenico Gnoli

#Soul Quotes #Unnecessary Quotes #Makers Quotes

“We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society.”
“Getting old in America ... best to do it somewhere else.”

Source : Nicole Hollander (2007). “Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial”
“That's the horrible thing starting out, you get distracted a lot because anything is easier than writing. It's just the same enemy - blank paper.”
“Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.”
“Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!”
“Provocative. Striking. Rachel Resnick is a virtuoso on the page. Her fearless examination of the desperate thirst to find love is guaranteed to break your heart. Yet her cool-eyed analysis of the roots of this addiction inspires hope that through committed self-understanding, maybe each of us can change toxic patterns, whatever they may be.”
“Unless a writer lives with a periodic delusion of his greatness, he will not continue writing. He must believe, against all reason and evidence, that the public will experience a catastrophic loss if he does not complete his novel. The public is just clamoring to give him his fame. From the book Dare to be a Great Writer: 329 Keys to Powerful Fiction by”
“Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.”

Source : Ronald Wright (1986). “On Fiji Islands”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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