"Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable...."

-- Christian Nestell Bovee

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“What if happiness is in fact more about remembering who we are, rather than attempting to change anything or anyone at all?”

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“Painting can also be too earnest at times and that's a drag. You don't want to go in that direction either. It should be holistic. It should represent the whole of your personality, I guess, so if somebody is a sincere painter or an ironic painter, then they're just bullshitting the audience and presenting only an idealized version of themselves.”
“The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion. It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all”
“There's no set designer like your own self; you furnish the mise-en-scÃ¨ne, the wardrobe, the physical proportions of the actor, and the setting. Then radio is doing something that television very rarely achieves.”
“Does art play a role in the greater good of society, or does it just promote the satisfaction of the artist? I go back and forth on that question.”
“Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them? There are who in the path of social life Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun, And sting the soul.”
“...what I can do is offer myself, wholehearted and present, to walk with the people I love through the fear and the mess. That's all any of us can do. That's what we're here for.”
“Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin.”

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