"It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass."

-- Eudora Welty

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“Never look back, except for an occasional glance, look ahead and plan for the future. Success is not built on past laurels, but rather on a continuous activity. Keep busy searching out new ideas and, experimentally, keep ahead of the times, or at least up with them.”
“I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age seven, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. And I was hooked. When my eighth grade art teacher, Mr. Smedley, told me he thought I had actual art talent, I decided to devote all my efforts in that direction in the hope that I might someday get into the comics biz. I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.”
“It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, because my job was to shovel snow, and I wasn't there to do it any more, so I was able to buy him a blower.”
“A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it.”

Source : "On the Molecular Theory of Evolution" by Jacques Monod, 1974.
“I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left.”

Source : "Famed Colombian Artist Fernando Botero Turns 80". www.foxnews.com. April 20, 2012.
“The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.”
“When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time.”
“When the end comes, I hope itâ€™s as strange as that. I hope that the sky tears open and the world is washed with colors that weâ€™ve never seen before.”

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