"Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree."

-- Willem de Kooning

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“The point of Buddhist meditation is not to stop thinking, for cultivation of insight clearly requires intelligent use of thought and discrimination. What needs to be stopped is conceptualisation that is compulsive, mechanical and unintelligent, that is, activity that is always fatiguing, usually pointless, and at times seriously harmful.”

Source : "Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up: A Practical Approach for Modern Life". Book by B. Alan Wallace, 1993.
“American journalism's crazy old aunt in the attic.”
“Our communications reflect in our countenance. Therefore, we must be careful not only what we communicate, but also how we do so. Souls can be strengthened or shattered by the message and the manner in which we communicate.”
“I bought a house in LA, hanging out there and spending a lot of time in Toronto, but not much.”

Source : "Scott Speedman for 'xXx: State of the Union'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. April 26, 2005.
“The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.”
“My favorite method of procrastination is to do something else that needs doing, but not quite so imminently. Sleeping is also good, as is drinking until you really can't do anything very well anymore.”

Source : Source: www.omnivoracious.com
“Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.”

Source : Mercedes Lackey, Rosemary Edghill (2001). “Spirits White as Lightning”, p.444, Baen Publishing Enterprises
“My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.”

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