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The divine art is the story.
A great artist is never poor.
Here I am, where I am supposed to be.
I do not see eye to eye with the camera.
To be a person is to have a story to tell.
We invent the past and remember the future.
I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
Real art must always involve some witchcraft.
Be unswervingly and eternally loyal to the story.
Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.
I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.
Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.
To set sail somewhere is more important than life itself.
All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.
You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.
The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.
We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel.
The best of my nature reveals itself in play, and play is sacred.
It is not a bad thing in a tale that you understand only half of it.
One may take many liberties with God which one cannot take with men.
My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady.
There is something about Safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows
There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.
I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places.
For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
If there were one more thing I could do, it would be to go on safari once again.
Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.
Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.
our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.
You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.
It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.
One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best.
death - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.
It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.
In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.
I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.
There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned
Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.
I don't think... one get a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there deep within you.
Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.
I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.
But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.
If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages.
I have a feeling that wherever I may be in the future, I will be wondering whether there is rain at Ngong.
Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.
And were my faith so strong that it could move mountains, that is the mountain that I would make come to me.