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Georg Brandes quote: "I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me..."

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.

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Stay hungry. It worked for Michelangelo, it worked for Picasso, and it works for a hundred thousand artists who do it not for love (although that might play a part) but in order to put food on the table. If you want to translate the world, you need to use your appetites. Does this surprise you? It shouldn’t. There’s no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art. -- Stephen King: Duma Key Stephen King
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