"I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it."

-- Theodore White

#Art Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Successful people tend to become more successful because they are always thinking about their successes.”
“That's why I played music; my social skills were limited. I think a lot of people that experience that pick up guitars, because they can't communicate otherwise.”

Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. July 23, 2007.
“We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth.”

Source : Sheri S. Tepper (2011). “Plague of Angels”, p.118, Spectra
“Wild as man was, and disgusting as the more degraded tribes and communities were, the best of them, and all those from which further advance came, were marked by good qualities, or they could never have risen to a higher stage.”
“I would rather watch a sunset than TV.”
“Sometimes family was the cruelest form of love there was, for no one could hurt you more than the people who created you.”

Source : S.C. Stephens (2013). “Effortless”, p.424, Simon and Schuster
“My idea of a perfect pet is a really, really big dog! Huge!”
“I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.”

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