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Matters Quotes (page 46)

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power. Paul Gauguin
If all the world were Christian, it might not matter if all the world were educated. But a cultural life will exist outside the Church whether it exists inside or not. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered. C. S. Lewis
what matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it -- a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely partial. Italo Calvino
Telling the truth when the truth matters most is almost always a frightening prospect. If a writer doesn't give away secrets, his own or those of the people he loves; if she doesn't court disapproval, reproach, and general wrath, whether of friends, family, or party apparatchiks; if the writer submits his work to an internal censor long before anyone else can get their hands on it, the result is pallid, inanimate, a lump of earth. Michael Chabon
I have no doubts that the Devil grins, As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my “literary” sins – The other kind don’t matter. Robert W. Service
Writing novels is much the same. You gather up bones and make your gate, but no matter how wonderful the gate might be, that alone doesn't make it a living breathing novel. A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side. Haruki Murakami
Salman Rushdie quote: "Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence."
Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence. Salman Rushdie
You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe. Philip K. Dick
J. K. Rowling quote: "As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it..."
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives. J. K. Rowling
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is..."
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. Kurt Vonnegut
No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to. George Carlin
Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts. Jack Kerouac
The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among. Alain de Botton
In all my life, I'd never been as sure of anything, and as much as I hoped to one day hear Savannah say these words to me, what mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations. Nicholas Sparks
Walter Benjamin quote: "The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how..."
The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man. Walter Benjamin

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