"The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all."

-- Julia Cameron

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“The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.”
“Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.”
“That's like the really fun, exciting thing about wrestling. There's no such thing as perfecting this art. You're constantly growing and you're constantly progressing and changing up you're style and gauging an audience to make sure that audience is enjoying what you're doing.”

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“All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter.”
“Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.”
“For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.”
“How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?”
“I thought about the difference between a mama's girl and a daddy's girl. I decided that a daughter who belongs to her daddy expects gifts, while a daughter who belongs to her mama expects a lot more. Not from her mama. From herself.”

Source : Victoria Bond, T.R. Simon (2010). “Zora and Me”, p.69, Candlewick Press

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