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Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.
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Nothing gives quite the satisfaction that doing things brings.
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He thought about himself and to the young that always brings sadness.
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Father was made for romance. For him there was no such thing as a fact.
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All of the men and women the writer had ever known had become grotesques.
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Most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not.
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The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.
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People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast.
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I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too.
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Draw, draw, hundreds of drawings. Try to remain humble. Smartness kills everything.
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If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.
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The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.
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If I can write everything out plainly, perhaps I will myself understand better what has happened.
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The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.
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The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is... the disease of self...
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There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.
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Above all avoid taking the advice of men who have no brains and do not know what they are talking about.
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I had a world, and it slipped away from me. The War blew up more than the bodies of men....It blew ideas away.
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She thought that something unexpressed in herself came forth and became a part of an unexpressed something in them.
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It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.
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People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging.
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I feel that I am writing out of a full life. I am a rich man, rich in men known, in adventures had. I am rich with living.
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There is this thing called life. We live it, not as we intend or wish, but as we are driven on by forces outside and inside ourselves.
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I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.
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All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds.
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In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and remembers
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.
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Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end.
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It might be that women who have been nurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taught to have too much respect.
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Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved. Be something more than man or woman. Be Tandy.
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What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
John Ruskin
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Born:
September 13, 1876
Died:
March 8, 1941
(aged 64)
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