"Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for. Refuse to compromise."

-- Brian Tracy

#Compromise Quotes #Clear Quotes #Refuse Quotes

“Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!”
“Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.”

Source : R. Murray Schafer (1977). “The Tuning of the World”, Alfred A. Knopf
“O was infinitely more moving when her body was covered with marks, of whatever kind, if only because these marks made it impossible for her to cheat and immediately proclaimed, the moment they were seen, that anything went as far as she was concerned. For to know this was one thing, but to see the proof of it, and to see the proof constantly renewed, was quite another.”
“Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.”

Source : "Don’t Write What You Know". www.theatlantic.com. August 2011.
“Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.”
“Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening.”

Source : "Paradigms Lost", interview with Gloria Brame, ELF: Eclectic Literary Forum, Spring 1995.
“All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.”

Source : Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”
“The first and most important thing is to remain free, free in each line you undertake, in your ideas and in your political action, in your moral conduct. The artist especially must remain free from all outer restraints.”

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