"You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it."

-- Ernest Hemingway

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“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

Source : Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3
“It was the only thing I had to do. I worked to get rid of the time, even now I work for something to do. Painting is a wonderful way of getting rid of the days.”
“They make a desert and call it peace.”
“In trying to imagine this world, I kept coming back to Michel Aflaq. He's a Christian Arab, a Syrian, who ends up finding his home in Iraq and is buried there - I was stunned to see his tomb is right smack down in the Green Zone.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.”

Source : "Between You and Me". Book by Louis Nizer, 1948.
“I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.”
“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”

Source : Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait.”

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