"The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things."

-- Michael Cunningham

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Artist Quotes

“Life is nothing if you're not obsessed.”
“Is death that which gives meaning to life?”
“It is very important that, no matter what happens, you keep your feeling of self worth and value.”
“Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties â€“ French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them for all time.”

Source : "Hadrian the Seventh" by Frederick Rolfe, Penguin Modern Classics edition, Harmondsworth, (p. 58), 1963.
“The question to ask is what will satisfy you? What will bring you peace? And perhaps the answer to those is in asking yourself when you were last happy.”
“Arsenal are quick to credit Bergkamp with laying on 75% of their nine goals”
“In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.”
“The events which can not be prevented, must be directed.”

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