Random quote of the day:

“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t (sic) know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done….The writer’s only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ is worth any number of old ladies.”

—William Faulkner, The Paris Review, Issue 12, Spring 1956

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Random quote of the day:

“In this yogi-ridden age, it is too readily assumed that ‘non-attachment’ is not only better than a full acceptance of earthly life, but that the ordinary man only rejects it because it is too difficult: in other words, that the average human being is a failed saint. It is doubtful whether this is true. Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.”

—George Orwell, “Reflections on Gandhi”

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Random quote of the day:

“Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.”

—David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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Random quote of the day:

“I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.”

—Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium (tr. Patrick Creagh)

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Random quote of the day:

“I quote others only in order to better express myself.”

—Michel de Montaigne, Essais, Book I

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Random quote of the day:

“[Happiness] always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”

—Maxim Gorky, The Zykovs (tr. Alexander Baksky and Paul S. Nathan)

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Random quote of the day:

“I photograph because I must elude the part of myself that thinks there are words for everything.”

—Teju Cole, Twitterfeed, June 20, 2013

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Random quote of the day:

“As a kid, I asked ‘If adults are so smart then why is everything screwed up?’ As an adult, I still ask that question.”

—Sherman Alexie, Twitterfeed, June 20, 2013

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Random quote of the day:

“Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else—and failing.”

—Raymond Radiguet, quoted by Jean Cocteau in his acceptance speech to the Académie Francaise, October 1955

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Random quote of the day:

“All humans carry the DNA of ancestors who travelled a long way from where they started, who were pushed from their lands by force or by scarcity or yearning for something they couldn’t find, all humans are made up of oppressor and oppressed.”

—Tracy Cochran, “Finding King Arthur,” tracycochran.org, June 4, 2013

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