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“Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front of them.”
Source : Ivan Klíma, Paul Wilson (2006). “Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light”, p.31, Grove Press
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“We can endure almost anything if we are centered, if we have some focus in our life. You can endure if you have an anchor.”
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“Art is coming face to face with yourself.”
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“I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.”
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“The true task of spiritual life is not found in faraway places or unusual states of consciousness. It is here in the present. It asks of us a welcoming spirit to greet all that life presents to us with a wise, respectful, and kindly heart. We can bow to both beauty and suffering, to our entanglements and confusion, to our fears and to the injustices of the world. Honoring the truth in this way is the path to freedom.”
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“I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks-it's really my relaxation.”
Source : "Obsessed with Cooking, M.J., and Being a Manny" by Rebecca Guinness, www.vanityfair.com. April 24, 2009. 
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“Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the possibility of human happiness at any period.”
Source : Quoted in Saranne Alexandrian Surrealist Art (1970).
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“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.”
