#tracts

Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already. ↗

— Linda Fiorentino

#already #contract #contracts #enough #financial

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#better #criticism #fleas #jump #like

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#attracts #most #only #our #reveals

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#answerable #comes #creative #creative act #eden