"The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact."

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Source : Maurice Blanchot (2015). “The Writing of the Disaster”, p.11, U of Nebraska Press

Maurice Blanchot

#Leaving Quotes #Ruins Quotes #Disaster Quotes

“As an artist, I gotta stand up to my own work.”
“Make your mistakes with confidence. It is the only way you are going to learn anything. Never be afraid to do a skill, no matter how simple or hard it may seem someone has done it, and so can you, With enough committed practice and confidence.”
“Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.”
“The strength of Olympism comes to it from that which is simply human, hence worldwide is its essence.”
“My husband says my toes are like Wall's cocktail sausages. He feels peckish whenever he sees them.”
“New York is the place where all the aspirations of the western world meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction of a steam dredge. It is the icing on the pie called Christian civilization.”
“I've had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn't going to talk about it”
“I had been fighting since 1998 and knowing that this was going to be my last fight â€“ I was not going to leave any questions or anything out there as far as, â€˜Could I have done anything different?â€™ I was going to give this everything I had. My last memories of being a fighter were going to be good ones.”

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