THE GOLDEN PALACE IS FOR EVERYONE

Jul 5

“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love” which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.” St. Augustine. (Submitted by Palabrass)

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Jul 2

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“To write any kind of imaginary work, you gotta fall on your sword. You gotta be ready to be blasted out of existence. Lots of times, the blood is on the floor.” Arthur Miller (via patrickdonohue)

JEANETTE WINTERSON LIVE FROM THE SYDNEY WRITERS' FESTIVAL

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“You look at kids…as soon as they can start walking around and talking they want to tell stories, they want to paint, they want to play instruments, they want to sing, it starts straight away. I’ve always felt that we stop that artificially, and then we claim that art and that creativity is something that we impose upon people later, that it’s a kind of elitist activity invented to fill a wet Sunday afternoon, whereas in fact it’s central to the way that we are, to our human expression. When people lived in situations that were much tougher than the ones we live in now, when there was no running water, when you had to grow your food locally or starve, when there was no heating, no washing machines, when people were eking a living back-breakingly from the land, what were they doing? They were singing, they were painting, they were telling stories. It’s absolutely not a product of a rather comfortable, fattened society that’s got new leisure time, quite the contrary.”