"The Artist should not forget his mission, perhaps the most religious of all, of sustaining faith in the worthwhileness of art and thus of life."

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Source : Ernst Bacon, Sara Davis Buechner (2011). “Notes on the Piano”, p.117, Courier Corporation

Ernst Bacon

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“I am sent to you to confute, not to embrace your heresy. The Catholic religion is the faith of all ages, I fear not death. . . Pardon my enemies, O Lord: blinded by passion they know not what they do. Lord Jesus, have mercy on me. Mary, Mother of God, succor me!”
“I am saying what comes out, because I'm really not a methodical writer. I'm not a good building writer, where you are like "well, I going to make a song today, and I think it will be a pop song." Some people are great at it and it's beautiful. If I am feeling musical and I pick up the guitar, usually something will eventually come out and I'll see where it goes.”
“To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.”

Source : Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper
“She had the same responsibility as everybody else did: to live as softly as she could in the world.”

Source : Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.17, Vintage
“Without language, it is safe to say that man would not have become fully human.”
“Building great public schools and universities, a strong health care system, including keeping the Affordable Care Act, and then an economy that works well for people so that when they put in a hard day's work, they can support themselves and their family members. Those are the fundamentals that have distinguished America from other nations in the world.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.”

Source : William Gaddis (1955). “The Recognitions: A Novel”, Harcourt
“The distinction between radical Islam and moderate Muslims is important, as are the differences between Sunnis and Shiites, and between militant and mystical Islam.”

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