"There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation."

-- Brian Ferneyhough

#Art Quotes #Point Break Quotes #Limits Quotes

“When the POWER OF GOD is present, healing and deliverance are just like BREATHING!”
“The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man.”
“God let it be known that it is better to give than to receive, but a lot of people failed to get the message.”
“I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually tell by Page 4 if it's worth the time. The author establishes the conflict early, sometimes in the first sentence. The themes of hope, family, friendship and overcoming hardship appeal to most everyone.”
“In all cultures, the midwife's place is on the threshold of life, where intense human emotions, fear, hope, longing, triumph, and incredible physical power-enable a new human being to emerge. Her vocation is unique.”
“It's dark out, Jack, the stations out there don't identify themselves, we're in it raw-blind like burned rats, it's running out all around us, the footprints of the beast, one nobody has any notion of. The white and vacant eyes of something above there, something that doesn't know we exist. I smell heartbreak up there, Jack, a heartbreak at the center of things, and in which we don't figure at all.”

Source : Kenneth Patchen (2008). “We Meet”, p.167, New Directions Publishing
“Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of clichÃ© and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly mundane, the grotesque. A few will even cook up Greek tragedy, those born into misery, destined to die in misery. But you, my bride of quietness, you will craft nothing less than epic with your life. Out of all of them, your story will be the one to last.”

Source : Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.84, Penguin
“I've become more confident as I have got older. I care less what others think.”

Source : "Helen McCrory: 'Most of the attention I get is from younger men'" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2013.

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