#si

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#demons #economists #everything #politicians #possible

Music for me, it demands full concentration. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#demands #full #me #music

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#answer #art #classical #i #i think

As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#abstract thought #creation #deny #development #fantasies

If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#animal #belong #consciousness #difficult #feelings

As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#another day #calendar #date #day #december

My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#answer #been #continue #dubious #hesitant

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. ↗

— Harold Coffin

#blessings #counting #envy #fellow #instead

Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you! ↗

— George M. Cohan

#gentlemen #i #ladies #mother #sister

I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make you revise your plans along the way. ↗

— Benjamin Cohen

#business #business opportunities #constantly #develop #emerge