"I believe in the goodness of imagination."

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Source : Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.300, Penguin

Sue Monk Kidd

#Believe Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Goodness Quotes

“You can serve God and man in no more effective way than by getting rich; that is, if you get rich by the creative method and not by the competitive one.”
“There are two kinds of people, those who like to sleep next to the wall, and those who like to sleep next to the people who push them off the bed.”
“The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world.”
“When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.”

Source : "Tate Donovan Calls Out The O.C. Co-Star Mischa Barton, Labels Young Cast ‘Ding-Dongs’", radaronline.com. March 7, 2013.
“A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.”

Source : "LIFE" Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 6, (p. 48), August 5, 1946.
“Loving the process. I learn it over and again and in different ways. I'm speaking particularly to the musical process, but I definitely think that this lesson transcends. Loving the life process. Loving the process of becoming stronger by experiencing something that makes me feel unsteady. The process of speaking and living my truth and making my own path.”
“Iâ€™ve kissed death a thousand times before”
“Iâ€™ve learnt from experience that a painting isnâ€™t finished when you put down your brush - thatâ€™s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.”

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