"Real art must always involve some witchcraft."

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Source : "Letters from Africa: 1914-1931". Book edited by Frans Lasson translated by Anne Born, 1981.

Isak Dinesen

#Art Quotes #Real Quotes #Witchcraft Quotes

“We face neither East nor West: we face forward.”

Source : Kwame Nkrumah (1972*). “Selected Speeches of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah: First President of the Republic of Ghana”
“What happened was simple, even banal: I became naked, died, lost parts of my flesh and most of my ego along with a few illusions such as a belief in the uniqueness of my personal scrap of consciousness and the cosmic importance therof, and went on from there.”
“Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.”
“There will be a machina mundi whose centre, so to speak, is everywhere, whose circumference is nowhere, for God is its circumference and centre and He is everywhere and nowhere.”
“His speech failed to rouse an enthusiastic cheer, but no one dared contradict him.”

Source : Kenneth Oppel (2009). “Skybreaker”, p.19, Harper Collins
“I'm really good at mini-golf. You know, maybe not big person golf, but little person golf.”
“In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice... No one can live in the light all the time.”

Source : Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.249, Simon and Schuster
“Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.”

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