"Literature and the other arts play with pattern - our brains understand our world by recognizing patterns - and with possibility. The arts harness our sharpest senses, sight and sound, and our richest ways of understanding, in language and narrative. They were our first schools before schools were ever invented. They develop our imaginations, extend our possibilities, and deepen what we can all share."

-- Brian Boyd

#Art Quotes #School Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“The way a man looks at himself in a mirror will tell you if he can ever care about anyone else.”
“I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality.”
“There is no meaningful distinction between eating flesh and eating dairy or other animal products. Animals exploited in the dairy industry live longer than those used for meat, but they are treated worse during their lives, and they end up in the same slaughterhouse after which we consume their flesh anyway. There is probably more suffering in a glass of milk or an ice cream cone than there is in a steak.”
“There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe.”
“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.”
“The common mistake that business people make is they're going to get drive-by business...Only gas stations are helped”
“Several times a day, stop and just listen. Open your hearing 360 degrees, as if your ears were giant radar dishes. Listen to the obvious sounds, and the subtle soundsÂ—in your body, in the room, in the building, and outside. Listen as if you had just landed from a foreign planet and didnÂ’t know what was making these sounds. See if you can hear all sounds as music being played just for you. Even in what is called silence there is sound. To hear such subtle sound, the mind must be very quiet.”
“They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.”

Source : Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.577, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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