"... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred."

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Source : Louise Bogan (1973). “What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

Louise Bogan

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“Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism. No sincere artist was ever completely satisfied with his labour.”
“As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.”
“The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.”

Source : Edward Bellamy (2016). “Equality: American literature”, p.23, VM eBooks
“I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That's part of my image, so it's cool.”
“Sometimes," Halt continued, "we tend to expect a little too much of Ranger horses. After all, they are only human.”
“I have been fortunate to have been brought up on a diet of adventure and privileged to take part in number of challenges. My training in the Royal Marines taught me to be professional at all times, even in dangerous and frightening circumstances. But fear can be dispelled by knowledge and preparation. Life hangs on a very thin thread and the cancer of time is complacency. If you are going to do something, do it now. Tomorrow is too late.”
“If you're still doing what mommy and daddy said for you to do (go to school, get a job, and save money), you're losing.”
“Tunnel vision can kill creativity.”

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