"I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big blinkers, then the disappearance of the blinkers and the self, now gradually the reemergence of a self without blinkers."

-- Paul Klee

#Character Quotes #Views Quotes #Years Quotes

“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”

Source : Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.38, New York Review of Books
“Giving orders you know won't be obeyed is one of the best ways I know to destroy your own authority.”

Source : David Weber (2014). “Safehold Boxed Set 1: Off Armageddon Reef, By Schism Rent Asunder, and By Heresies Distressed”, p.1045, Macmillan
“It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.”
“The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing. [Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.]”
“Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.”
“Perhaps people ought to feel with more imagination.”
“One of my biggest lessons in life is, we heal at the speed of our forgiveness.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I'm not asking you to describe the rain falling the night the archangel arrived; I'm demanding that you get me wet. Make up your mind, Mr. Writer, and for once in your life be the flower that smells rather than the chronicler of the aroma. There's not much pleasure in writing what you live. The challenge is to live what you write.”

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