"To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself."

--

Amy Tan

“Writing a song is a long road. Or it can be.”
“A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later.”
“Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.”
“I keep thinking Naruto... That one of these days your going to finally grow up!”
“If you do not listen to your intuition, it will stop talking to you. Your intuition is like a sensitive friend. If you question it, censor it, judge it, it gets hurt and becomes silent.”

Source : Michele Cassou, Stewart Cubley (1996). “Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous”, p.85, Penguin
“I am glad that people are trying to have a rational conversation about drugs.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.”
“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.”

Source : Speech to the Society of the Army of Tennessee, archive.org. 1875.

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