"What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have."

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Source : Lionel Trilling, Leon Wieseltier (2009). “The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays”, p.99, Northwestern University Press

Lionel Trilling

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“Art is about cosmic beauty. Science is about cosmic order. Religion is about cosmic purpose.”
“I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'”
“I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.”
“I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery”

Source : Sir Henry Bessemer (1905). “Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An autobiography”
“Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.”

Source : "A Minute With: Gabriel Byrne's TV Viking chieftain". Interview with Jill Jacobs, www.reuters.com. February 27, 2013.
“A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game. If the pitcher is concerned about you, he isn't concentrating enough on the batter.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If you're going to photograph skateboarders you can't run after them, you've got to learn how to skate. So at about 50 years old I learned how to skate, and skate fast enough to keep up with them and hold my camera.”

Source : "Larry Clark’s Americ". Interview with Owen Wilson, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2016.
“Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God.”

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