"If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all."

-- Joseph Campbell

#Inspirational Quotes #Stories Quotes #Bigs Quotes

“Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.”
“A glamorous life is quite different to a life of luxury. I donâ€™t need luxury. For years, I was practically broke but I was still very vain and glamorous. And I still am.”
“As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon and Jupiter... Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse.”
“Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies; Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.”

Source : James Weldon Johnson (2011). “The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson”, p.227, Modern Library
“The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know â€” the greater the number of the books he read, the greater the immense uncountable number of those which he could never read would seem to beâ€¦. The thought that other books were waiting for him tore at his heart forever.”

Source : Thomas Wolfe (1999). “Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth”, p.115, Simon and Schuster
“One of the joys of writing music is making your own mark. Study other stuff, immerse yourself in music and then tell your own truth.”
“People quit managers, not jobs.”
“Our inner image of ourselves and what we want to accomplish in life makes us become what we were meant to be.”

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