"The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt."

-- Joyce Carol Oates

#Art Quotes #Doubt Quotes #Overcoming Quotes

“I frightened myself. I became the ghost Piper was so scared of.”
“I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.”
“Art has a will of its own. It has nothing to do with the taste of the moment or what's expected of you. That's a formula for dead art, or fashionable art.”
“You see all I need is a whisper in a world that only shouts.”
“Wake up - time to die.”
“My father once told me of a trick question he used in a college class on forest fire control. If there was a fire coming from a certain direction and wind was coming from another, what was the best thing to do? The right answer was, "Run like hell and pray for rain," but few students ever got it. So allow yourself the freedom of knowing there are times to bail out, quit, run, leave the struggle, and have more time for joy.”
“To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.”

Source : Marilyn French (2013). “Her Mother's Daughter: A Novel”, p.1070, Open Road Media
“The thought of today cannot be expressed in the language of yesterday.”

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