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Gilda Radner: I wanted a...

Gilda Radner: I wanted a...

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a...

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Whoopi Goldberg: [S]omehow we are...

Whoopi Goldberg: [S]omehow we are...

[S]omehow we are supposed to be credits to our race. The mere fact that I'm still around makes me a credit to my race,...

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Lily Tomlin: The trouble with...

Lily Tomlin: The trouble with...

The trouble with the rat race is that if you win you're still a rat.

Source: In...

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Henri Matisse: An artist must...

Henri Matisse: An artist must...

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery...

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Oliver Herford: Manuscript: Something submitted...

Oliver Herford: Manuscript: Something submitted...

Manuscript: Something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

Source: In 1,911...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: I had to...

Georgia O'Keeffe: I had to...

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

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Raoul Dufy: The subject itself...

Raoul Dufy: The subject itself...

The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented.

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John Berger: I knew I'd...

John Berger: I knew I'd...

I knew I'd been living in Berkeley too long when I saw a sign that said 'Free firewood and my first thought was Who...

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John Berger: Ours is the...

John Berger: Ours is the...

Ours is the century of enforced travel. . . of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who...

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Benjamin Haydon: One of the...

Benjamin Haydon: One of the...

One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry,...

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David Bailey: Everybody comes along...

David Bailey: Everybody comes along...

Everybody comes along at the right time. . . . Leonardo was lucky because he came along at the right time. Oscar Wilde...

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David Bailey: When I die...

David Bailey: When I die...

When I die I want to go to Vogue.

Source: In International Herald Tribune, 15 Nov...

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Robert Millikan: Cultivate the habit...

Robert Millikan: Cultivate the habit...

Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and...

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G C Lichtenberg: One's first step...

G C Lichtenberg: One's first step...

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything -- one's last step is to come to terms with...

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G C Lichtenberg: The worst thing...

G C Lichtenberg: The worst thing...

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have...

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Leonardo da Vinci: As a well-spent...

Leonardo da Vinci: As a well-spent...

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

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Man Ray: A creator needs...

Man Ray: A creator needs...

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

Source: In Webster's NewWorld...

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John Berger: When we read...

John Berger: When we read...

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next...

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John Berger: All photographs are...

John Berger: All photographs are...

All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this -- as in other ways -- they are the opposite of...

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John Berger: Autobiography begins with...

John Berger: Autobiography begins with...

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

Source:...

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