"You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy."

#Adversity Quotes #White Quotes #Despair Quotes

“There is time in life for everything.”
“Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.”
“Don't take my criticisms as iron-clad rules but more as suggestions.”
“Writerâ€™s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something Iâ€™ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by going back and reinventing some part of what Iâ€™ve already written so that when I write it again, it is believable and interesting to me. Then I can go on. Writerâ€™s block is never solved by forcing oneself to â€œwrite through it,â€ because you havenâ€™t solved the problem that caused your unconscious mind to rebel against the story, so it still wonâ€™t work â€“ for you or for the reader.”
“You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.”
“Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.”

Source : Maya Deren (1953). “Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti”, McPherson & Company
“Potentially, America is really the greatest, but it's not yet, I don't think. It's too much like an old-fashioned empire, waving the stick and dropping too many bombs on too many people.”
“Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.”

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