"Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons."

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Source : Wes Nisker (2012). “The Essential Crazy Wisdom”, p.111, Ten Speed Press

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“So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans. Did it then seem probable, as he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? Had Almighty God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six thousand years ago would succeed in building a tower to heaven?”
“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
“However, unlike some of my friends and students, I don't think it's a laughing matter. I think it is frightening to see what outrageous stories can be told in the United States and then are accepted by many educated people and academics as facts. Movies get awards, books become best sellers, heroes are made, and people become wealthy as a result of dishonest caricatures of Iranian people and society.”
“Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.”

Source : "Matilda/ Taglines". www.imdb.com. 1996.
“The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.”
“Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.”
“It is time for us now as a nation to exercise the same reasonable foresight in dealing with our great natural resources that would be shown by any prudent man in conserving and widely using the property which contains the assurance of well-being for himself and his children.”
“Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.”

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