Nancy Hale Quotes

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If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.

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Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

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The best work of artists in any age is the work of innocence liberated by technical knowledge.

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To do anything, it is first necessary to be doing nothing.

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The dead hand of research lies heavy on too many novels.

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In order to go anywhere it is necessary to be where one is.

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Malicious gossip, which takes the place of creation in non-creative lives, of course draws heavily on imagination.

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Mine! There isn't any such thing as mine. The world slips slithering through my fingers.

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Creation lives alone in a small temple. Only one may worship at a time.

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After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been...It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

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The dark has to be contained in the light or the light will be contained in the dark.

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We might likewise say that humans are the neurotics of the animal world, in that they are the only animals who must choose to be instead of just instinctively being.

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This mysterious thing, artistic talent: the key to so much freedom, the escape from so much suffering.

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Imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.

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It seems as if when you try to do just one thing and nothing but, you can't do it at all. You do everything better if there's more than one thing.

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One must find one's natural home, not try to construct it.

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If it were possible to uncover the unknown by means other than imagination, it would no doubt have been done long ago. Imagination's purpose is to express what is otherwise inexpressible — the stone that throbs, the ice that burns.

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