"In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up. It was the best advice Francie every got."

-- Betty Smith

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Advice Quotes

“Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept.”
“The problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus can offer no grounding for good and evil. Values on the atheist view are subjective and contingent.”
“You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.”
“I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in strange scales as you pass by. A person can be very, very tiny. And a billboard can make a person very large. You see the corner of a house or you see a bird fly by, and it's all fragmented. Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure â€” that doesn't deter me in the least.”

Source : "Contemporary Artists: A-K" by Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, (p. 680), 2002.
“Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.”
“O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!”
“Our mission is to revive the gaming industry by increasing our user base,”
“Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. Itâ€™s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Donâ€™t let them take that from you.”

Source : Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Invincible: The Chronicles of Nick”, p.123, Macmillan

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