"Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here."

-- Anne Lamott

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“At some point, I get a weird feeling, and that's when I know it's done. I probably ruin a lot of really perfectly fine things. So part of working on paper, and trying to work really fast, is to see if I can expand the area of not being driven by taste. Not saying, "This looks good, I'll stop."”
“John you are not being open with me”
“In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.”

Source : Larry Niven (2010). “Stars and Gods”, p.363, Macmillan
“If we wish to follow Christ closely, we cannot choose an easy, quiet life. It will be a demanding life, but full of joy.”
“Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.”
“Remember, if you do the things you ought to do when you ought to do them, then someday you can do the things you want to do when you want to do themâ€¦Whatever you do or dream you can doâ€”begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.”
“We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.”
“I don't really care how I sound.”

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