"I rather like getting away from fiction."

-- Penelope Lively

#Fiction Quotes #Get Away Quotes

“Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.”
“The good things of life are produced by learning with hard work; the bad are reaped of their own accord, without hard work.”
“How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.”

Source : Hortense Calisher (2013). “Mysteries of Motion: A Novel”, p.70, Open Road Media
“Jazz is not a 'form' but a collection of tags and tricks.”

Source : "The World of Music". The Sunday Times, September 4, 1927.
“In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.”
“The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from a bad script writer. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another.”
“I think you just have to take the bad with the good and you're going to get hurt more, but it's worth it.”

Source : "Lung Of Love : A Conversation With Amy Ray". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.
“Defy the crowd. The crowd isnâ€™t always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is as necessary for people to diverge from a crowd as it is to get people to join one.”

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