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    Victor A. Davis
    “Artist: An art lover who sees a hole in the art they love and seeks to fill it.”
    ― Victor A. Davis
    tags: art
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    Victor A. Davis
    “There are an infinite number of good books, and only a finite amount of time in which to read them.”
    ― Victor A. Davis
    tags: books
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    William Faulkner
    “I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: writing
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    Jack Kerouac
    “I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Wild Years
    tags: humility
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    Robert Hughes
    “The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."

    [Modernism's Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)]”
    ― Robert Hughes
    tags: art, artists, cezanne, confidence, creative-process, depression, depression-humor, doubt, fame, fame-and-fortune, great-art, great-artist, greatness, humility, insecurity, introspection, narcissism, paul-cezanne, self-awareness, self-delusion, self-doubt, self-doubts, self-esteem, self-esteem-or-lack-thereof
    449 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those who can't.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: aliteracy, books-reading
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    Mark Twain
    “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: courage
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    Mark Twain
    “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: clothing
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    David Bowie
    “And these children that you spit on
    As they try to change their worlds
    Are immune to your consultations.
    They're quite aware of what they're going through.

    - Changes”
    ― David Bowie
    tags: life, music, teenagers
    468 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “The problem with internet quotes is that you cannot always depend on their accuracy.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln 1864
    tags: humor, sartisohn
    34 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
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    H.L. Mencken
    “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
    ― H.L. Mencken, In Defense of Women
    tags: politics, propaganda
    230 likes

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    William Trevor
    “I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.”
    ― William Trevor
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    Carol Shields
    “Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
    ― Carol Shields
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    Earl Nightingale
    “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
    ― Earl Nightingale
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    Rose Tremain
    “In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.”
    ― Rose Tremain
    tags: endings, planning, writing
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    “This is what the great artists manage. They flatter us, by observing better than others and then speaking to each of us as individuals and in a language that we worry we may be the only ones left caring for.”
    ― Tristan Gooley, How To Read Water
    tags: art, artist, artists-quotes
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    Robert Macfarlane
    “Before you become a writer you must first become a reader. Every hour spent reading is an hour spent learning to write;”
    ― Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks
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    Robert Macfarlane
    “In Northamptonshire dialect 'to thaw' is 'to ungive.' The beauty of this variant I find hard to articulate, but it surely has to do with the paradox of thaw figured as restraint or retention, and the wintry notion that cold, frost and snow might themselves be a form of gift -- an addition to the landscape that will in time be subtracted by warmth.”
    ― Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks
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    “There is a sadness that only hunters know, a moment when lament overshadows any desire for celebration. Life is sustained by death, and though going to the field is an act of taking responsibility for that fact, the killing is not easy, nor should it be.”
    ― David Joy
    tags: hunting, life-and-death
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