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Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

—Sinclair Lewis

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Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

—Lionel Trilling

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

—David Hockney

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

—George Sand

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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

—Paul Cezanne

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The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

—Rodney Dangerfield

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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

—Robert A. Heinlein

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You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.

—Milton Berle

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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.

—Luis Bunuel

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I love you more than my own skin.

—Frida Kahlo

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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

—Emily Bronte

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I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me.

—Woody Allen

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True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blond Hero — really look — and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. "You must change your life," he said. When the true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message: "You must change your life.

—Ursula K. Le Guin

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

—Horace Mann

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