"When less than four years old I was standing with my nurse, Mary Ward, watching the shadows on the wall from branches of an elm behind which the moon had risen. I have never forgot those shadows and am often trying to paint them."

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Source : "The Life and Letters of Samuel Palmer, Painter and Etcher". Book by Alfred H. Palmer, London, 1892.

Samuel Palmer

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“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”
“I think good publicists are just like good mommies - always looking out, making sure folks are comfortable and making sure that folks are on time and making sure that folks are getting what they need and know what they need to do.”
“Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards.”
“Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.”
“It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.”

Source : William McFee (1916). “Casuals of the Sea: The Voyage of a Soul”
“In carrying out e-commerce, the most important thing is to keep doing what you are doing right now with passion, to keep it up.”
“I consider the Stooges to be pop music.”

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