"what was the right level of prosperity, the level that banished dire need but did not satiate, the level that did not threaten the artist in the individual? And how did one stop when one arrived at it?"

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Source : Nayantara Sahgal (1963). “From fear set free”

Nayantara Sahgal

#Artist Quotes #Needs Quotes #Levels Quotes

“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.”
“The moon was up, painting the world silver, making things look just a little more alive.”

Source : N. D. Wilson (2008). “Leepike Ridge”, p.16, Random House Books for Young Readers
“You don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in.”

Source : John von Neumann's advice to Richard Feynman as quoted in "Los Alamos from Below" in Richard Feynman "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!", 1985.
“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”
“I once bought an old car back after I sold it because I missed it so much and I had forgotten that it never ran. It was a British racing car. You know, because I just wanted it back. I could only remember what was good about it”
“I'm trying to make sense of lot of things with 'Tyrannosaur.' I'm trying to make sense of people who've left now. They're not here, they can't answer for themselves any more, they're gone. And I'm trying to make peace with those ghosts.”

Source : "Paddy Considine: 'I'm trying to make sense of a lot of things'" by Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2011.
“Hey Colt Cabana, how you doing”
“Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it. They should not reserve their benevolence for purposes after they are dead, for those who give not of their property till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.”

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