"If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today."

-- Salman Rushdie

#Artist Quotes #Worry Quotes #Creative Quotes

“It's funny how when you're little, you miss all the little lies. They float right past you, but you don't wonder about them much. For a long time, you think this is just something adults still do after being kids - pretend. Then one day you wake up and realize most of the world you're in is built on someone's make-believe.”

Source : "Misty".
“They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.”
“I also felt guilty about the three pens I'd stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no convenient way to give them back, I stole a bottle of ink before I left.”
“I'm the undisputed champion of keeping my mouth shut and just sitting there like a piece of furniture.”

Source : Steve Hamilton (2010). “The Lock Artist: A Novel”, p.17, Macmillan
“Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings.”
“Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.... That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.”

Source : "Canada: 'A Model for the World'". The Globe and Mail, February 02, 2002.
“The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical. And that is what the perception is by the American Left who hates Christendom. ... What I'm talking about is onward American soldiers. What we're talking about are core American values.”

Source : "Santorum: Left hates 'Christendom'". www.politico.com. February 23, 2011.
“This journey started about 42 years ago in a little town of Brunswick, Georgia.”

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