"To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it."

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#Writing Quotes #Simple Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to lodge moments, like snapshots, in the fleeting video of time.”
“Pain, I came to feel, might well prove to be the sole proof of the persistence of consciousness within the flesh, the sole physical expression of consciousness. As my body acquired muscle, and in turn strength, there was gradually born within me a tendency towards the positive acceptance of pain, and my interest in physical suffering deepened.”
“I love the idea of being without an identity, it gives me a lot of room to play around; but it makes me dizzy, having nowhere to hang my hat.”

Source : Kate Bornstein (2013). “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us”, p.49, Routledge
“Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.”

Source : "2b or not 2b?" by David Crystal, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.
“Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?”
“It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing, even with the rambling nonsense-speech of the 'grammelot.'”
“I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars.”
“Look at your life in contrast with the magnitude of creation, space and time. Your life becomes insignificant. Ego disappears.”

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