"I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art."

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Rembrandt

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“[On the New Testament:] I ... must enter my protest against the false translation of some passages by the men who did that work, and against the perverted interpretation by the men who undertook to write commentaries thereon. I am inclined to think, when we [women] are admitted to the honor of studying Greek and Hebrew, we shall produce some various readings of the Bible a little different from those we now have.”
“To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day.”
“Weâ€™re going to be as loyal to our fans as they are to us.”
“I have about 40 cars, of which 25 to 30 are what you might call serious.”
“I should think it takes a fairly low intellect to draw pleasure from the following activity: hitting a ball with a crooked stick. and then walking after it! An then ..hitting it again!”
“Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.”
“Movement is the essence of life.”

Source : Bernd Heinrich (2009). “Why We Run: A Natural History”, p.36, Harper Collins
“Most of us waste our energy through chattering - endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting.”

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