"Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists."

-- A. Y. Jackson

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“They miss Rachel and Lillian Rose every minute of every day. It doesn't bring them any comfort to see him standing there and know that their daughter and granddaughter are gone.”
“Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.”
“Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.”
“Jacques Rudolph at the moment is using the inside edge as much as the middle of the bat.”
“Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less.”
“Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.”
“Among the gods, there is a dispute as to which one of them originally thought of Christianity; or, as they call it, the Great Leg Pull. Apollo has the best claim, but a sizeable minority support Pluto, ex-God of the Dead, on the grounds that he has a really sick sense of humour. How would it be, suggested the unidentified god, if first we tell them all to love their neighbour, pack in the killing and thieving, and be nice to each other. Then we let them start burning heretics.”
“He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river. Helen loved the absolute. Leonard had been ruined absolutely, and had appeared to her as a man apart, isolated from the world. A real man, who cared for adventure and beauty, who desired to live decently and pay his way, who could have travelled more gloriously through life than the Juggernaut car that was crushing him.”

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