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Frank Lloyd Wright: Clear out 800,000...

Frank Lloyd Wright: Clear out 800,000...

Clear out 800,000 people and preserve it as a museum piece.

Source: On Boston; in...

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Frank Lloyd Wright: The thing always...

Frank Lloyd Wright: The thing always...

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it...

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Bernard Berenson: Consistency requires you...

Bernard Berenson: Consistency requires you...

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Source:...

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Joshua Reynolds: The value and...

Joshua Reynolds: The value and...

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in...

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Vincent Van Gogh: One may have...

Vincent Van Gogh: One may have...

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke...

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Jules Feiffer: At 16 I...

Jules Feiffer: At 16 I...

At 16 I was stupid, confused, . . . and indecisive. At 21 I was wise, self-confident, . . . and assertive. At 45 I'm...

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William Morris: Dreamer of dreams,...

William Morris: Dreamer of dreams,...

Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time,
Why should I strive to set the crooked straight?
Let it suffice me...

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Gilbert Adair: The earth is...

Gilbert Adair: The earth is...

The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's...

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Gilbert Adair: In New York...

Gilbert Adair: In New York...

In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been tattooed with an energy to put our own rude practitioners...

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Coco Chanel: I invented my...

Coco Chanel: I invented my...

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would...

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Grandma Moses: . . ....

Grandma Moses: . . ....

. . . daydreams, as it were . . . I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different...

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Robert Henri: Genius is not...

Robert Henri: Genius is not...

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a...

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J B Priestley: I know only...

J B Priestley: I know only...

I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is...

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Eugene Ionesco: Explanation separates us...

Eugene Ionesco: Explanation separates us...

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the...

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Stanislaw Lec: If a man...

Stanislaw Lec: If a man...

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?

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Thomas Mann: Opinions cannot survive...

Thomas Mann: Opinions cannot survive...

Opinions cannot survive if no one has a chance to fight for them.

Source: The Magic...

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Lisa Alther: If this was...

Lisa Alther: If this was...

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert...

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Jane Austen: It does not...

Jane Austen: It does not...

It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any...

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Charles Dickens: Philosophers are only...

Charles Dickens: Philosophers are only...

Philosophers are only men in armor after all.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Anthony Powell: Few persons who...

Anthony Powell: Few persons who...

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going...

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