"Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That's because only a real artist knows the anatomy of the terrible, or the physiology of fear."

-- H. P. Lovecraft

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“I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.”
“We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves.”
“Silver is the best material we have. And silver has this wonderful shine like moonlight ... a light taken straight from a Danish summer's night. When covered by dew, silver can look like magical mist.”
“There are many kinds of revelation. But the most powerful is the vision which transcends the mental boundary between life and non-life, and Scotland is a place where this sort of revelation often approaches. Staring into a Scottish landscape, I have often asked myself why--in spite of all appearances--bracken, rocks, man and sea are at some level one.”

Source : Neal Ascherson (2014). “Stone Voices: The Search For Scotland”, p.26, Granta Books
“While it may not be a simple act, offering forgiveness not only has the power to heal relationships, it strengthens the well-being of those who give this life-changing gift.”

Source : Debbie Macomber (2009). “One Simple Act: Discovering the Power of Generosity”, p.61, Simon and Schuster
“There seems to be a lot of momentum behind immigration reform.”
“I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help.”
“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”

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