"Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty."

-- Ralph Ellison

#Crafts Quotes #Serious Quotes #Conflict Quotes

“Hope and change are hard-fought things.”
“I am not working to earn a living, but I am living movies. I am finding me enjoying the process.”
“I am afraid there are people who want to stop the economic growth, the rise in the standard of living (though not their own) and the ability of man to use the expanding wealth, science and technology for solving the actual pressing problems of mankind, especially of the developing countries.”
“If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.”
“Maybe we're the fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that nothing can ever be known at all.”
“I'm satisfied with the way 'The Room' turned out, and I don't want to change anything.”
“Ultimately, the purpose of magic is to free our potential, not bind us to ideas.”

Source : Philip Carr-Gomm, Richard Heygate (2010). “The Book of English Magic”, p.48, The Overlook Press
“Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything is impermanent.”

Source : Stephen Levine (2005). “Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart”, p.3, Rodale

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