"People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education."

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Source : Interview With Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2006.

Nina Bawden

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Important Quotes

“Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.”
“Everything that is good in the arts is done by some sort of diversion.”

Source : Interview with Kristopher Terrell, www.filmjerk.com. August 23, 2003.
“And as much as Iâ€™d like to believe thereâ€™s a truth beyond illusion, Iâ€™ve come to believe that thereâ€™s no truth beyond illusion. Because, between â€˜realityâ€™ on the one hand, and the point where the mind strikes reality, thereâ€™s a middle zone, a rainbow edge where beauty comes into being, where two very different surfaces mingle and blur to provide what life does not: and this is the space where all art exists, and all magic.”
“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”
“I didn't have a clue where I was going on my first lap of practice.”
“The moment that he begins to walk along it, the warrior of the light recognizes the path.”
“Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.”
“..the more you believe in your own ability to success the more likely it is that you will.”

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