"Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance."

-- Oscar Wilde

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“If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank-notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal-mines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again (the right to do so being obtained, of course, by tendering for leases of the note-bearing territory), there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of repercussions, the real income of the community, and its capital wealth, would probably become a good deal greater than it actually is.”
“The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.”
“Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.”
“The journey to true happiness and to happiness now is not a journey of physical distance or time; it is one of personal "self-recovery," where we remember and reconnect consciously to an inner potential for joy--a paradise lost--waiting to be found.”
“We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality; rather are we Reality itself illusorily conceived.”
“I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.”
“Coming into the Games I knew I was in five events but I didn't expect to get a medal in every distance, especially the 5,000.”
“I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.”

Source : "Nina's wars" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.

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