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John Shirley quote: "Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a..."

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.

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The artist who is too sensitive for contacts with the non-artistic world is thereby too sensitive for his vocation, and fit only to fall into gentle ecstasies over the work of artists less sensitive than himself. Arnold Bennett
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