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My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac--you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan.


Priya Ardis


#coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales #merlin

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected." (Frauds on the Fairies, 1853)


Charles Dickens


#utilitarianism #age

...; the chipped plates might have been disinterred from some kitchen midden near an inhabited lake; and the chops recalled times more ancient still. They brought forcibly to one's mind the night of ages when the primeval man, evolving the first rudiments of cookery from his dim consciousness, scorched lumps of flesh at a fire of sticks...


Joseph Conrad


#primeval-man #tales-of-the-sea #age

Talent is 98% hard work - even Brel said so. The best signal for lack of talent is therefore quite simply low production. That does of course not mean high production guarantees talent, so something does exist that needs to be present - what is that? Talent and Drive - both are quite useless without the other, but what exactly is 'talent'? I would say its a form of the unconditioned: in some people it survives, even unto old age. Some learn to focus it on a particular craft. But without drive, it still goes nowhere.


Martinus Hendrikus Benders


#jacques-brel #talent #age

Caning was a way of life at the school, and the boy, Sting and myself, even at an early age, had our fair share of thrashings.


James Berryman


#sting #sting-in-the-tale #age

Look, I can appreciate this. I was young too, I felt just like you. Hated authority, hated all my bosses, thought they were full of shit. Look, it's like they say, if you're not a rebel by the age of 20, you got no heart, but if you haven't turned establishment by 30, you've got no brains. Because there are no story-book romances, no fairy-tale endings. So before you run out and change the world, ask yourself, "What do you really want?


George Huang


#establishment #fairy-tale #romance #storybook #want

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.


John Paul II


#talent #art

There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.


Flannery O'Connor


#fiction #on-fiction #talent #value #vocation

...how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.


Benjamin Zander


#contradiction #creativity #possibility #talent #art

Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words on the other hand, were a lifeline. They left their hushed rhythm behind, a counter to the slow in and out of Emmeline's breathing.


Diane Setterfield


#art






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