"I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move."

-- Georgia O'Keeffe

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“Magic is a faculty of wonderful virtue, full of most high mysteries, containing the most profound contemplation of most secret things, together with the nature, power, quality, substance and virtues thereof, as also the knowledge of whole Nature, and it doth instruct us concerning the differing and agreement of things amongst themselves, whence it produceth its wonderful effects, by uniting the virtues of things through the application of them one to the other.”
“I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.”
“George Burns, what a man. He read in the paper that it takes ten dollars a year to support a kid in India. So he sent his kids there.”
“Grief is a most peculiar thing; weâ€™re so helpless in the face of it. Itâ€™s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.”

Source : Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.255, Random House
“Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldnâ€™t, because there arenâ€™t enough skulls!”
“Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.”
“I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.”

Source : Resignation Address, delivered 12 August 2004
“This is what I want everyone to experience at the end of my concert... everyone has this sense of rejoicing. I don't want them to be blown away by what I do, I want them to have this sense of real, real joy from the depths of their being. Because I think when you take them to that place, then you open up a place where grace can come in.”

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