"I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler."

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Source : Washington Allston (1993). “The Correspondence of Washington Allston”, p.15, University Press of Kentucky

Washington Allston

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“Thereâ€™s nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time, and falls flat on his faceâ€¦ I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone elseâ€™s. Thatâ€™s a difficult statement to live up to, but then Iâ€™ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.”
“You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.”
“The things that affect you most deeply - the things that will destroy you if you don't sing about them - are the things that you often end up singing about. It's really just about saying those things that everybody thinks but no one will say and making a connection by uncovering these diamonds that are inside of all of us that no one wants to tell each other about.”
“I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.”
“Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus.”
“The amount which cannot be harnessed and domesticated, but insists on its own form of activity rather than one which is offered ready made, is the energy used for the creation of art.”
“This is what weâ€™ve been waiting for, this is the cyberchryst moment. This is when the activists that have been pushing against the FED are going to win.”
“Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.”

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