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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#artists #bad #fame #give #intoxication

People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#aware #come #dialogue #every #hold

Scholars, theologians, and even poets have yet to be able to truly describe and touch upon the beauty, romance, and magic of a relationship built on 100% authenticity ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#beauty #honesty #inspirational #life #love

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#cultivate #public #you

Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life. ↗

— David Allan Coe

#few #give #give me #given #i

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#carve #had #i #journalism #little

There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#apply #been #beyond #caught #circumstances

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#forget #getting #live #living #men

I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee. ↗

— Bruce Vilanch

#billing #fee #flat #hour #i

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#go #internet #lives #more #much