"Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?"

-- Anthony Hope

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“It's one day at a time, that's all there is to it, and so I don't have to worry about it. All I do is, okay, I do not have to drink. And if I feel like it, I postpone it for ten minutes, and that way I find something else to do in the meantime.”
“I am satisfied with the dissatisfaction that never rests until it is satisfied and satisfied again.”
“Her eyes take on that suspicious, wounded look girls get when they know they've fallen off the top rung of friendship and someone else has passed them, but they don't know when or how the change took place.”
“â€¨â€¦Abe didnâ€™t say a word. He made straight for his journal and wrote down a single sentence. One that would radically alter the course of his life, and bring a fledgeling nation to the brink of collapse.â€¨I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.”
“Men seized of the urge to have a knowledge of God and to be pure in mind devote all their gathered energies to this one task. While they still live in the corruption of the flesh they give themselves to that service in which they will persevere when the corruption has been laid aside. And already they come in sight of what the Lord and Savior held out when He said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God' (Mt. 5:8).”
“The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.”
“Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part.”

Source : "Anselm Kiefer's tragic works carry traces of humor" by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. January 22, 2012.
“So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends.”

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