"Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought."

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Source : Albert Pinkham Ryder (1961). “Albert Pinkham Ryder: Exhibition April 8-May 12, 1961”

Albert Pinkham Ryder

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“I am not here to entertain straight people.”
“There are several dozen political prisoners in Russia. When I cite that number people are often very surprised. They often think there are more. Well - there are hundreds of thousands of people who haven't had a fair trial, who are victims of the political system. But in the Amnesty International sense of the word, most of them are not political prisoners because they are not going to prison for protesting.”
“In love, sometimes what you fear is exactly what you need.”
“We go, in winter's biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig and double dig the clay.”

Source : Ruth Pitter (1969). “Collected poems”
“Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.”
“You always have to go for bigger and better things.”
“Live Foods and Exercise = Good Health and Happiness. Make eating the right foods and daily workouts a top priority.”
“We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”

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