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“The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.”

“Fate never knows when comedy ends and tragedy begins.”

Knows Ends Comedy Fate Tragedy

Book:The Original Woman

Source: The Original Woman

“And now it goes as it goes and where it ends is Fate. And neither by singeing flesh nor tipping cups of wine nor shedding burning tears can you enchant away the rigid Fury.”

Ends Fate Tears Wine Flesh Cups Burning Fury Tipping

Book:The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides

Source: The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides

“If this is the degree of inflation planned for in advance, the real outcome is indeed likely to be such that most of those who will retire at the end of the century will be dependent on the charity of the younger generation. And ultimately not morals but the fact that the young supply the police and the army will decide the issue: concentration camps for the aged unable to maintain themselves are likely to be the fate of an old generation whose income is entirely dependent on coercing the young.”

“It'sthe fate of most Ping-Pong tables in home basements eventually to serve the ends of other, more desperate games.”

Ends Home Games Fate Tables Desperate Basements Ping Ping Pong

Author:Jonathan Franzen