"The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity."

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Source : Anne Truitt, Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

Anne Truitt

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“To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.”
“When one must, one can.”
“Any gospel which says only what you must do and never announces what Christ has done is no gospel at all.”
“I think you're going to see a number of Democrats that do want to see us grapple with spending.”
“I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.”
“The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.”
“There is nothing wrong with trying to exploit the natural human tendency to become impatient when forced to play a boring position.”
“We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.”

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