"It is enough to have been created, to have embodied for a moment the infinite and tumultuously creative spirit. It is infinitely more than enough to have been used, to have been the rough sketch for some perfected creation. Looking into the future, I saw without sorrow, rather with quiet interest, my own decline and fall."

-- Olaf Stapledon

#Fall Quotes #Creative Quotes #Sorrow Quotes

“It's a gift that I have and I became good at it. When I heard my first song I didn't even know that I could write songs.”
“It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.”
“My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.”
“Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.”
“If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.”

Source : "Paranoia & Power: Fear & Fame of Entertainment Icons" by Gene N. Landrum, Morgan James Publishing, (p. 225), November 1, 2007.
“I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision.”

Source : "Romney stirs 'birther' controversy, Akin to stay in Senate race". www.cnn.com. August 24, 2012.
“You are all spirits. It is not that you "have" a spirit. To have a spirit implies that you are spirit and that you are also something else. Human beings are spirits. Being a human being is one of the ways of being a spirit.”
“India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.”

Source : "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2009.

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