"If some people can imagine that a person they love is alive in another world, why can't I imagine Maurice is alive in this one An artist is a person who uses art to run away from reality. It's not wrong-it's survival. There's nothing wrong with me creating a world in which Maurice is alive."

-- Robin Gibb

#Running Quotes #Art Quotes #Reality Quotes

“I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.”
“When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness.”

Source : David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”
“Nobody remembers second place.”
“Persuasion is not a science but an art”
“I'm the most comfortable when I'm at home resting doing nothing.I feel the most myself when I'm with music.”
“At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas.”
“As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.”

Source : Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.114, Penguin
“But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, there was more more products and technology. But for me the nightlife was winding down, the glamour, the fun.”

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