"Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail."

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Source : Theodore Dreiser (1920). “Hey Rub-a-dub-dub: A Book of the Mystery and Wonder and Terror of Life”

Theodore Dreiser

#Art Quotes #Sadness Quotes #Wings Quotes

“I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass. The mirror angled at the foot of my bed. Twisted reflections bouncing off into infinity. Obsessed with my image, the myriad of distored figurines who danced in front of me in rapid succession, every feature exaggerated, every slight imperfection a new delicacy.”

Source : Lydia Lunch (1997). “Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary”, Creation Publishing Group
“I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy ways,”
“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”
“I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block, the problem is idea block”
“My mom doesn't get the whole gay thing, but she loves me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution.”
“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”

Source : Jim Henson (2007). “Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider”, p.54, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
“It is a rare person who can pierce the veil between ordinarly life, consumed with matters of physical survival, and pursuit of the empowered path of purpose and meaning unless he or she is motivated by a crisis. Most often we require the failure of some system of power that we rely on before we take action.”

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