"Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers."

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Source : "The Andrew Wylie Rules". Interview with Laura Bennett, newrepublic.com. October 8, 2013.

Andrew Wylie

“If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it. Then you will find, if nature has granted you any imagination at all, that you will eventually acquire a style individual to yourself, and it cannot help being good; because your hand and your mind, being always accustomed to gather flowers, would ill know how to pluck thorns.”

Source : "Il libro dell' arte".
“Every night I pray to God: 'Please, no more wack MC's.'”
“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
“I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.”
“The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.”
“It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.”
“Forgiveness means that you fill yourself with love and you radiate that love outward and refuse to hang onto the venom or hatred that was engendered by the behaviors that caused the wounds.”
“The Church is always in trouble because the Church walks into the trouble in which mankind is trying to resolve itself. There are a lot of areas that need to be addressed. If we were perfect we wouldn't be the Church. I think it's the imperfections that allow people to trust that you're working (toward) something.”

Source : "From Elvis to Jesus: Mother Dolores Hart talks about her extraordinary journey from a blossoming career in Hollywood to something quite different". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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