"I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction."

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Source : In George Plimpton Writers at Work (1967) 3rd series, p. 190

Saul Bellow

#Art Quotes #Prayer Quotes #Eye Quotes

“Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.”
“A sense of humor saves your life, and being able to make friends wherever you go.”
“It's hard enough to tell good stories about people who analyze information for a living. It's even harder to do a good show about people who think for a living.”

Source : "Rubicon executive producer Henry Bromell". Interview With Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. October 15, 2010.
“From the moment we claim the truth of being the beloved, we are faced with the call to become who we are.”
“Maybe it's not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 11, 2014
“Perhaps my children will live in stone houses and walled towns - Not I”
“In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.”
“The situation in America is when it starts moving there, all the bands from England move over to America and work from there, so that they're available all the time for everyone that wants them in person.”

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