"That's a depressing and practical thought," Sam said. "I'd rather it was something magical."

-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Depressing Quotes #Said Quotes #Practicals Quotes

“This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.”

Source : Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.343, Macmillan
“It's very important to make nuclear deals but you have to make them from strength, not from weakness.”
“I don't pamper my voice. It's part of my body. If my body is rested and healthy, my voice is rested and healthy.”
“Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.”
“I've been taking longer to write stories lately.”
“What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?”
“I'm the type of guy where one thing leads to another and eventually it gets awful. If I put a $5 bet on a roulette table tonight at 10 o'clock, by tomorrow at noon I would be running guns to Cuba.”
“A man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed to make up a man. Thus, finally, all things meet in all things, but we need a Prometheus to distill it.”

Source : "The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon". Book by Cyrano de Bergerac, 1657.

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