"It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right relations are the most important things in the study of painting. They are the fundamentals of all painting."

-- Charles Webster Hawthorne

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“I like Silver Surfer because he's the most philosophical, always philosophizing about the human race and the human condition and why people are the way they are, why they don't appreciate this wonderful planet they live on... he has a nice moral tone.”
“It is only to the finest natures that age gives an added beauty and distinction; for the most persistent self has then worked its way to the surface, having modified the expression, and to some extent, the features, to its own likeness.”
“I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull.”
“There are many sorts of love. And when you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have to make allowances for the difference between a real man and a dream. Sometimes you have to forgive him. Perhaps you even have to forgive him often. But forgiveness often comes with love.”

Source : Philippa Gregory (2014). “The White Princess”, p.267, Simon and Schuster
“AS a matter of fact, God isn't asking you to be thankful. He's asking you to give thanks. There's a big difference. One response involves emotions, the other your choices, your decisions about a situation, your intent, your 'step of faith.”

Source : Joni Eareckson Tada (2010). “A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty”, p.140, David C Cook
“There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind...”

Source : "Tell Me the Truth About Love: Memories: 1953-1969". Book by Robert Ayres Carter, Xlibris Corporation, p. 151, 2008.
“I gave my life to Christ about 1991.”
“I wanted to build something that was a system - that was mechanical and would propagate itself like a virus. I needed a way for it spread from person to person, and the best way to do that was trying to get someone to get their friends to sign up.”

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