"The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree."

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Source : Thomas Reid (1822). “The Works of Thomas Reid; with an Account of His Life and Writings”, p.367

Thomas Reid

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“The good news is that by the second year, those cravings were about as half as frequent, and by the third year, half as much again. I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things crooked, I can't complain. After all those years of all kinds of abuse and crashing into trees at eighty miles an hour and jumping off buildings and living through overdoses and liver disease, I feel better now than I did ten years ago. I might have some scar tissue, but that's alright, I'm still making progress.”
“My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm never absolutely certain that what I've written is any good.”
“I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.”
“Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.”
“New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock”
“The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.”
“Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.”
“I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage.”

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