"I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines."

-- Henry David Thoreau

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“. .the most crucial ingredient by far for success in music is . . .what happens in the practice room.”
“My books, at any rate, deserved to be burned.”
“There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life.”
“A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.”
“There are no short cuts to Heaven, only the ordinary way of ordinary things.”
“One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.”
“Inflation has ... become the cruelest tax, destroying the value of the dollar and adding new costs to every purchase.”
“The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special trick about writing, or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it.”

Source : Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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