"I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book."

-- James Joyce

#Book Quotes #Cities Quotes #Giving Quotes

“The rich buy assets. The poor only have expenses. The middle class buys liabilities they think are assets. The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.”
“While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Chance has something to say in everything, even how to write a good letter”
“I want a God big enough to love those who don't believe in him.”
“The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art's sake than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore - and then there will be time enough for art.”
“Fasting will also overcome sexual additions and demonic powers.”
“There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.”

Source : Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.183, Penguin
“I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.”

You may also like: