"Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop."

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Source : Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

Charles Webster Hawthorne

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“From the animist point of view, humans belong in a sacred place because they themselves are sacred. Not sacred in a special way, not more sacred than anything else, but merely as sacred as anything else -- as sacred as bison or salmon or crows or crickets or bears or sunflowers.”
“I have no words for my reality.”

Source : Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk - real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.”
“I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.”

Source : "Have I Got News for You". www.imdb.com. 1990.
“Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.”

Source : Song: Cracklin' Rosie
“A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.”
“Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that I sent her a bunch of stamps by return mail. I have no idea what I was thinking. It was a star-struck impulse.”
“And I always keep cards people send me. I have a whole wall covered with them.”

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