"I talk about it a lot to my students. Musicality never came up in any of own writing education, and I can see why - we don't have the vocabulary for it. Phrasing is intuitive, and its difficult to articulate when it's on and when it's not."

-- Paul Lisicky

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“It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.”
“But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.”
“Your sadness is one of the things that makes you beautiful to me. Don't you see that? I understand it. It makes my own sadness less frightening." (Brigan)”
“I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.”
“In the end I have to hold myself accountable...I had to make a change if I really wanted to reach the goals I had set for myself. I had to get out of being comfortable and get into a situation that was going to really push me.”
“Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.”
“Happiness is a continuous creative activity.”
“Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime”

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