Famous quotes by Authors

Neil Gaiman, Author

"A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously"

Andre Malraux, Author

"To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved"

Andre Malraux, Author

"There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman"

Andre Malraux, Author

"There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases"

Andre Malraux, Author

"The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself"

Andre Malraux, Author

"The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself"

Andre Malraux, Author

"The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell"

Andre Malraux, Author

"Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real"

Andre Malraux, Author

"Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act"

Andre Malraux, Author

"Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were"

Andre Malraux, Author

"Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it"

Andre Malraux, Author

"Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism"

Andre Malraux, Author

"Art is a revolt against fate.All art is a revolt against man's fate"

Andre Malraux, Author

"And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own"

Andre Malraux, Author

"An art book is a museum without walls"

Andre Malraux, Author

"Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only"

Andre Malraux, Author

"The only way to combat fear is with love. The only way to combat hate is with love. The only way to combat darkness is with light"

Brené Brown, Author

"Empathy is a choice, and it's a vulnerable choice because it means engaging with our own humanity and the humanity of others"

Brené Brown, Author

"You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging"

Brené Brown, Author

"Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is the belief that if we live perfectly, look perfectly, and act perfectly, we can avoid the pain of blame, judgment, and shame. It's a shield"

Brené Brown, Author

"Elegance is inferior to virtue"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

"When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around"

Ken Kesey, Author

"Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye"

Ken Kesey, Author

"I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won"

Ken Kesey, Author

"I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

"And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

"You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you"

Ken Kesey, Author

"The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to"

Ken Kesey, Author

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