"Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick."

-- Red Smith

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“I'm not greedy at all. Sometimes I pinch myself because of what I've got.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
“But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day, If your Snark be a Boojum! for then You will softly and suddenly vanish away, And never be met with again!”
“A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks. He's implicated in what's happening, and he has a certain real power over the result.”
“All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.”

Source : David Hawkins (2007). “The Informed Vision: Essays on Learning and Human Nature”, p.70, Algora Publishing
“You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.”
“That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.”

Source : The Wonders of the Invisible World (1692)
“To many men well-fitting doors are not set on their tongues.”
“There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like that... the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.”

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