"It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think."

-- Matthew Arnold

#Thinking Quotes #Important Quotes #Able Quotes

“Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track, I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistakes, all that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.”

Source : Agnes Martin (2005). “Schriften”, Cantz
“To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.”
“Every time I start off a book or a story I feel like I'm developing a new style or approach for that individual story alone, and it sometimes feels as if readers are looking for the same style/approach from the same writer over and over again, which hasn't helped me in the publishing biz.”

Source : "Go Forth (Vol. 15)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, believermagblog.wordpress.com. September 10, 2013.
“I didn't decide to become a musician until the age of 15, which is quite late.”
“One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.”
“If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.”
“There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Trials". Book by Ann Tusa and John Tusa, 1983.
“Accept that, like many men, you have a streak of the homoerotic in you. Why would you, why would anyone, want to be that straight?”

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