#fin

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud. ↗

— Stephen King

#emotion #find #finest #go #gross-out

This is the essence of Rembrandt's advice to Van Hoogstraten: the authentic craft develops naturally from one's own experience. So, it seems reasonable to suggest that the search should not be for the lost secrets, but for one's own practice. This is in fact easy, you start making things. At first they might not be perfect, but the information here should provide you with a running start. And, if you are cut out for this the learning curve will not be daunting, because you will realize that you are finally headed in the right direction: towards the living craft. ↗

— Tad Spurgeon

#craft #experience #finding-self #art

I love you, Frey. I’m in love with you. So in love, I’ll never stop loving you. Not ever. You, everything about you is beyond my wildest dreams. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#dreams

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. ↗

— Marcel Pagnol

#be happy #better #find #future #happy

Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#games

Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it. - Logen Ninefingers ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#logen-ninefingers #law

...it's very much like your trying to reach infinity. You know that it's there, you just don't know where-but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for. ↗

— Norton Juster

#infinity #goals

PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#prayer #law

Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#definition #honesty #vision

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite. ↗

— William Blake

#infinity #opportunity #perception #potential #truth