"The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent...there must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed."

-- Virginia Woolf

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“People want to think that staying in shape costs a lot of money. They couldn't be more wrong. It doesn't cost anything to walk. And it's probably a lot cheaper to go to the corner store and buy vegetables than take a family out for fast food.”
“To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.”
“Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.”
“[B]y far the larger number of the dreams... occurred towards dawn; sometimes even, after sunrise, during a "second sleep." A condition of fasting, united, possibly, with some subtle magnetic or other atmospheric state, seems therefore to be that most open to impressions of the kind.”
“The world is unkind to the shoeless and frolicsome.”

Source : Jedediah Berry (2009). “The Manual of Detection: A Novel”, p.30, Penguin
“To live, to experience the world, to communicate with a camera, all these are interrelated and cannot be separated from everyday live.”
“A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.”

Source : Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.162, Bantam

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