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When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

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Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards. Judith Martin
Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat...giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief. J. R. R. Tolkien
Joe Frazier quote: "Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people."
Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people. Joe Frazier
I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine. Nate Ruess
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomiants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. (Cannery Row) John Steinbeck
Catherine Keener quote: "The movies I'm in not a lot of people see, but it's alright."
The movies I'm in not a lot of people see, but it's alright. Catherine Keener
Suddenly, I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to pretend I'm fooling the world when I'm not. I want someone else to have a plan for me, because I'm not doing a very good job myself. Jodi Picoult
Ted Lindsay quote: "Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist."
Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist. Ted Lindsay
It was the air she wanted and the world she would now exclusively choose; the quiet chambers, nobly overwhelming, rich but slightly veiled, opened out round her and made her presently say 'If I could lose myself here!' There were people, people in plenty, but, admirably, no personal question. It was immense, outside, the personal question; but she had blissfully left it outside...". Henry James
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You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way. Terry Southern
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What did my arms do before they held you? Sylvia Plath
John Chamberlain quote: "Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing..."
Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction. John Chamberlain
Alexander Pope quote: "One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so..."
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit. Alexander Pope
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. Henry Adams
...You're going to stay here and help Daran in every way you can. Don't let him sink into melancholia the way his father has...Now, pull yourself together. Blow your nose and fix your face. Daran's talking to the Rivan Warder right now. I'll take you to where they are, and then I have to leave."You're not even going to stay for the funeral?"I've got the funeral in my heart, Pol, the same as you have. No amount of ceremony's going to make it go away. Now go fix your face. You look awful. David Eddings