"I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream."

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Vincent Van Gogh

#Dream Quotes #Stars Quotes

“This Western culture of ours tends to sacrifice the full range of experience to a lower common denominator that's acceptable to more people; we end up with McDonald's instead of real food, Holiday Inns instead of homes, and USA Today instead of news and cultural analysis. And we do that with the rest of our lives.”
“Are you smelling me?â€ After yesterday I suspected that my body was giving him all kinds of information I didn't want him to have. â€œDon't tempt me,â€ he murmured.”
“With each new character, I find something new about myself that I didn't know before.”
“You can fight based on a strong mind, based on developing your muscles and reflexes, training your motor functions and going back again. Having a strong enough mind to actually put them into action. This is not actually terribly different from what an Olympic athlete does - and essentially describes the process of becoming an Olympic athlete.”
“Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.”
“You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.”

Source : Letter to Denis Diderot. "The Affairs of Women: A Modern Miscellany". Book by Colin Bingham, 1969.
“Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands.”
“Writing is not magic. It’s a craft, a process, a set of steps. As with any process, things sometimes break down. Even in a good story, the writer runs into problems. So the act of writing always includes problem solving.”

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