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And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them. Vincent Van Gogh
In the same way there is much, much in all of us, but we do not know it. No one ever calls it out in us, unless we are lucky enough to know intelligent, imaginative, sympathetic people who love us and have the magnanimity to encourage us, to believe in us, by listening, by praise, by appreciation, by laughing. If you are going to write, you must become aware of this richness in you and come to believe in it and know it is there so that you can write opulently with with self-trust. Once you... Brenda Ueland
Nina Simone quote: "You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, ..."
You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times. Nina Simone
But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations that ever was on earth--do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. Why, it never occurs to them. "Be not anxious for the morrow," and "which of you being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?"So they dare to be idle, i. e. not to be pressed and duty-driven all the time. They dare to love people even when they are very bad, and... Brenda Ueland
We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships that brought them or the shipwrights. It has always been that way. Even those history books enamored of the voyages of Christopher Columbus do not tell much about the builders of the Nina the Pinta and the Santa Maria or about the principle of the caravel. These spacecraft their designers builders navigators and controllers are examples of what science and engineering set free for well-defined peaceful purposes can... Carl Sagan
Hunter S. Thompson quote: "Real happiness, in politics, is a wide-open hammer shot on..."
Real happiness, in politics, is a wide-open hammer shot on some poor bastard who knows he's been trapped, but can't flee. Hunter S. Thompson
Stephen Colbert quote: "A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten..."
A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!? Stephen Colbert
Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind. Agatha Christie
Max Beerbohm quote: "Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best...."
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs. Max Beerbohm
Agatha Christie quote: "What good is money if it can't buy happiness?"
What good is money if it can't buy happiness? Agatha Christie
Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower, or a a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences long forgotten. Books smell musty and-and-and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer is a - it, uh, it has no no texture, no-no context. It's-it's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then-then the getting of knowledge should be, uh, tangible, it should be, um, smelly. Joss Whedon
Harold Bloom quote: "Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can..."
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. Harold Bloom
Brian Tracy quote: "Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for..."
Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others. Brian Tracy
I’ve always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can’t shut myself out from His mercy. Evelyn Waugh
The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear. Felix Adler

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