"I see no reason to stop writing. But the reason isn't always one of your own. The mind is not invulnerable, and it can lose some of its powers."

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Robert Coover

#Writing Quotes #Mind Quotes #Reason Quotes

“Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.”
“The artist must forget the audience, forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music. Then, the music speaks through the performance, and the performer and the listener will walk together with the soul of the composer, and with God.”
“A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and humility can we grow. Pride and conceit will only destroy us. Live with the firm attitude, 'I am everyone's servant.' Then the whole universe will bow down to us.”
“The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong.”
“A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma.”
“But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance”
“I don't think getting in and out of a limousine has anything to do with being an icon.”
“In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.”

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