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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

—e. e. cummings

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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

—Winston Churchill

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Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.

—Grandma Moses

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Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

—John Dewey

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Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

—René Magritte

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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

—Anatole France

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What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

—W. Clement Stone

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I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

—W. C. Fields

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I got this powdered water - now I don't know what to add.

—Steven Wright

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If you wished to be loved, love.

—Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

—George Bernard Shaw

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You need to stop feeling sorry for yourself. I don't say this as a condemnation–I need regular reminders to stop feeling sorry for myself too. I'm going to address you bluntly, but it's a directness that rises from my compassion for you, not my judgement of you. Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things have befallen you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

—Cheryl Strayed in Tiny Beautiful Things

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This is an age of divorce. Things that belong together have been taken apart. And you can't put it all back together again. What you do is the only thing that you can do: you take two things that ought to be together and you put them back together. Two things, not all things! That's the way the work has to go. You make connections in your work… That's what we do, we people who make things. If it's a stool or a film or a poem or an essay or a novel or a musical composition, it's all about that. Finding how it fits together and fitting it together.

—Wendell Berry

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I have learned that no matter how much I learn about anything, I am always at 'the threshold of ignorance,' a frontier of inner and outer awareness (and lack of it) in which some things have become second nature, some things are new and a little uncomfortable, and some things are a complete mystery.

—Rich Frye

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I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was an attempt to socially integrate in an interesting way. And then I didn't like it anymore and stopped doing it and focused more on drama and science and other forms of art and music.

—Reggie Watts

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