"In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us...."

-- Mark Rowlands

#Ends Quotes #Defiance Quotes

“A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts.”
“I've had lots of replies, we're into the double figures now. And the overall standard is very good. In fact I've been feeling a little guilty, because I haven't replied to anyone yet - it is something I will be doing.”
“Sometimes you don't choose the material; the material chooses you.”

Source : "Author Q&A". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.
“An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.”
“Near the end of the 1700s, philosophers began to declare that humans were rational individuals. People were flattered by being recognized as individuals, and by being called rational, and the idea soon wormed its way into the belief systems of nearly everyone in the upper class. Despite resistance from Church and State, the idea of rational individuality replaced the assumption that truth comes only from god and king.”
“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
“What we do is inherently self-centered and sort of narcissistic. It's hard to really be thinking about myself all of the time when I have a dog who needs me to be caring for him twenty-four seven.”
“My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school.”

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