"Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries."

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Source : Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.214, Bantam

Patty Duke

#Inspiration Quotes #Insanity Quotes #Century Quotes

“Will God or someone give me the power to breathe my sigh into my canvases, the sigh of prayer and sadness, the prayer of salvation, of rebirth?”
“My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves.”
“We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great waterfalls, and galleries of art. And yet the world's wonder is all around us; the wonder of setting suns, and evening stars, of the magic spring-time, the blossoming of the trees, the strange transformations of the moth..”

Source : Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.214, Simon and Schuster
“A faerie heart is different from a human heart. Human hearts are elastic. They have room for all sorts of passions, and they can break and heal and love again and again. Faerie hearts are evolutionarily less sophisticated. They are small and hard, like tiny grains of sand. Our hearts are too small to love more than one person in a lifetime.”
“All great inventions emerge from a long sequence of small sparks; the first idea often isnâ€™t all that good, but thanks to collaboration it later sparks another idea, or itâ€™s reinterpreted in an unexpected way. Collaboration brings small sparks together to generate breakthrough innovation.”
“Singing doesn't have to mean that you sound like Stevie Wonder. I love to sing. I'm not the greatest singer in the world. But, a lot of my favorite singers aren't the greatest singers in the world.”
“To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.”
“The fact that my parents got over to Canada is kind of amazing in and of itself. Had they not immigrated when I was a child, I probably would have never been doing what I'm doing. So, thanks, Canada!”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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