"What an artist does, is fail. Any reading of the literature... (I mean the literature of artistic creation), however summary, will persuade you instantly that the paradigmatic artistic experience is that of failure. The actualization fails to meet, equal, the intuition. There is something "out there" which cannot be brought "here". This is standard. I don't mean bad artists, I mean good artists. There is no such thing as a "successful artist" (except, of course, in worldly terms)."

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Source : "The Sandman". "Sadness". Book by Donald Barthelme, 1972.

Donald Barthelme

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“Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.”

Source : "George Foreman Has Wisdom, Faith Lessons To Share". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 6, 2010.
“Blessed are those who know nothing, and diligently spread the same.”
“When Captain America died, Americans heard it in an American way: through the media. When Captain Britain died, the British felt it in their chests.”
“I'm from a big family - I'm the youngest of seven - and my wife is one of four. So we always wanted a lot of kids. It's what we're used to, and for us it's what life is all about.”
“Football became my life at five or six. The earliest memory I have is of playing in my first boots, a pair of black and white Alan Balls. It was 1970, four years after the World Cup, and I scored three goals at school.”

Source : "Vinnie Jones: 'It took me 40 years to see a psychologist'"y Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2013.
“and there's something about having an especially different name that makes it difficult to imagine what you would be like as a Jennifer.”
“Youâ€™re probably smarter than you present yourself.”
“Say, what is life? 'Tis to be born, A helpless Babe, to greet the light With a sharp wail, as if the morn Foretold a cloudy noon and night; To weep, to sleep, and weep again, With sunny smiles between; and then?”

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