Vonnegut on a life in the arts
I am thrilled that I don’t have children - I have the thing I love, which is freedom. In a funny way, if you don’t have children, you can concern yourself more generously with the extended family and let other people have the children. It’s a bit of a guilty secret because as a woman, you’re almost expected to be sad if you don’t have children, but that’s bulls**t. There have always been women who don’t have kids.
Helen Mirren
Choosing to have children is like choosing to play the bagpipes: you must do it well or not at all. Anything in between and you’ll really annoy your neighbors.
Anonymous
(Arguing that everyone should become a parent) is like arguing that a branch should only create more branches, instead of leaves, so that there will be more branches to make leaves. Somewhere along the line, there have to be a leaf-makers. Why not us?
The world might be considerably poorer if the great writers had exchanged their books for children of flesh and blood.
Virginia Wolff
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
Music is what language would love to be if it could be so.
John O’Donahue
I don’t give them Hell. I just tell the truth about them and they think it’s Hell.
Harry Truman
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
Chinua Achebe, Novelist
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
It has always seemed strange to me… the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John Steinbeck
[Man] sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.
The Dalai Lama
‘Earth’ without ‘art’ is just ‘eh’
unknown
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