"I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace"

-- Thurston Moore

#War Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.”
“I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live.”
“Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.”
“Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible.”

Source : Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.84, Penguin
“Care like hell! Sit around the bars and drink, and pose, and pretend, all you want to, but in reality, deep down underneath, care like hell.”
“Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.”
“Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way.”

Source : Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.24, Del Rey
“At least I thought it was a wall. It sure felt like one. It was hard. It was flat. It stretched out on either side of me. You know... wall.”

Source : D.J. MacHale (2009). “Pendragon: Quillan Games”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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