"Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps."

-- Larry McMurtry

#Art Quotes #Pain Quotes #Genius Quotes

“I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.”
“The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.”
“Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.”

Source : Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.131, Wave Books
“Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.”
“"Mine ain't a selfish affection, you know," said Mr. Toots, in the confidence engendered by his having been a witness of the Captain's tenderness. "It's the sort of thing with me, Captain Gills, that if I could be run over - or - or trampled upon - or - or thrown off a very high place -or anything of that sort - for Miss Dombey's sake, it would be the most delightful thing that could happen to me."”
“In the technical realm, we repeatedly enter into a series of social contracts, the terms of which are revealed only after the signing.”

Source : Langdon Winner (2010). “The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology”, p.9, University of Chicago Press
“I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.”
“It is an interesting and demonstrable fact that all children are atheists and were not religion inculcated in their minds, they would remain so.”

You may also like:

Ang Lee
Film director
Annie Proulx
Journalist
Diana Ossana
Writer
Doc Holliday
Gunfighter
James L. Brooks
Producer
Peter Bogdanovich
Film director
Randy Quaid
Actor
Wyatt Earp
Gambler
James McMurtry
Singer-songwriter