"It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence."

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Source : Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.165, D & M Publishers

Emily Carr

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“To live is often only to have a choice of several despairs.”

Source : Georgette Leblanc (1932). “Souvenirs: My Life with Maeterlinck”
“Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.”
“A person can have the greatest idea in the world - completely different and novel - but if that person can't convince enough other people, it doesn't matter,”

Source : "Neuroscientist Reveals How Nonconformists Achieve Success" by Kathi Baker, whsc.emory.edu. September 25, 2008.
“For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.”
“The goal in tasting wine is not to "find" the same aromas and flavors some other taster is describing. If you hone your own perceptual abilities and develop the vocabulary to articulate them, you'll not only derive more pleasure from the wine itself, but also stimulate better communication between you and the friends who are sharing the bottle.”
“I think you just have to work hard for about 10 years before you know what youâ€™re doing”
“What crystallized the importance of speaking out like that - of making nonviolence not just a tool or a tactic, but a way of life - was in San Diego [at Comic-Con]. One of the young girls who marched with us was wearing a hijab, and she came up to me afterward because I talked about my beard, and I talked about why I was doing it, and she came up and she gave me a hug, and she was crying. And she said, "Thank you. You have no idea how the other students treat me because they're shown that this is OK by Donald Trump. Thank you for speaking out."”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century.”

Source : "The world of Camera".

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