"When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that."

-- Karl Kraus

#Fate Quotes #Remember Quotes #Pens Quotes

“Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life.”
“You know, motherhood is my favourite topic in my personal life and I won't shut up about it, but it's not something I want to discuss publicly just because of the amount of attention it draws to a small person who didn't choose to be exposed.”
“... it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.”

Source : "Infinite Jest". Book by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1996.
“Life is a winking light in the darkness.”

Source : "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind". Manga series by Hayao Miyazaki, vol. 8, 1982-1994.
“Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of family saga and a ride up an escalator can take the same number of pages. Fiction sets any conversion rate, then changes it in a syllable. The narratorâ€™s mother carries her child up the stairs and the reader follows, for days. But World War I passes in a paragraph. I needed 125 pages to get from Labor Day to Christmas vacation. In six more words, hereâ€™s spring.”

Source : Richard Powers (2009). “Generosity: An Enhancement”, p.166, Macmillan
“Any artist who really engages with the problems in their medium at that moment and tries to deepen the problems is likely to discover new problems, new possibilities that will excite audiences and continue to excite them.”
“Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.”
“I stay in tune with my family and God.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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