"I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between the work imagined and the work achieved wherein it is to be found that the ceaseless labor is the freedom of play, that whatâ€™s at stake isnâ€™t a reflection in the mirror of fame but the escape from the prison of the self."

-- Lewis H. Lapham

#Distance Quotes #Reflection Quotes #Mirrors Quotes

“Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you donâ€™t validate. Indulge what you donâ€™t like. Wallow in it. Write the opposite of what you always write, think, speak. Do everything against the grain!”
“A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.”
“Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity,decline,disgrace,honor,praise,censure,suffering, and pleasure.They are neither elated by prosperity nor grieved by decline. The heavenly gods will surely protect one who is unbending before the eight winds.”
“It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.”
“There are couples who are very fearful of bringing children into the mix because they feel like somehow that link between them as a couple is going to somehow dissolve or become less powerful or whatever. And that somehow the child is going to disrupt their happy stage. Of course it is true, that's exactly what a child does but it's not something to be feared, it's to be embraced.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.”
“We would never call inexplicable little insights hunches, for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you knew you had been in the proximity of one that had come through if you saw a detective kiss his or her fingers and touch his or her chest where a pendant to Warsha, patron saint of inexplicable inspirations, would, theoretically, hang.”
“A man in music, as one in love, either lives it or talks about it; seldom both.”

Source : Ernst Bacon, Sara Davis Buechner (2011). “Notes on the Piano”, p.157, Courier Corporation

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