"Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and perhaps it is my avid reading that has been my faith all along."

-- Curtis Sittenfeld

#Reading Quotes #Avid Quotes #Order Quotes

“I'll tell you one thing you can't do: you can't put your shoes on, then your socks on.”
“I think I have a lot of voices in my head and I guess my inner critic is a female.”
“There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others”
“How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods”
“Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.”
“I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.”
“Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.”
“I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written play, without the use of actors.”

Source : Edward Gordon Craig (2008). “On the Art of the Theatre”, p.25, Routledge

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