"Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private."

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Adam Gopnik

#Faith Quotes #Art Quotes #Practice Quotes

“Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.”

Source : Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.130, Simon and Schuster
“I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't do drugs. I shop, okay?”
“When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them; but at least you're very strong. In fact through time, it's just adding more and more pain; more and more loss, and it makes you more fragile.”
“When war is declared, truth is the first casualty”

Source : "Falsehood in Wartime". Book by Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede, 1928.
“I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.”
“Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.”
“I want to be something special. I want to be known as a great female basketballer.”
“I'm a natural born sniper.”

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