"I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art â€” not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course."

-- Peter S. Beagle

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“I also want to try acting - give it a shot - maybe take some lessons, I think that could be fun. I feel like that could even help me with modeling, because in a way you have to act.”
“Im the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then theres a few more albums in us.”
“We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.”
“Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n' roll/folk-roots culture - of which he was not really a part - shouldn't get better as they get older, like the great jazz or blues artists.”
“I am, as a European, absolutely shocked by European people. I am also shocked by European nationalist people. They have allowed themselves to be so emasculated so silently.”
“Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much.”
“In that time and by God's will there died my mother, who was a great hindrance unto me in following the way of God; my husband died likewise, and in a short time there also died all my children. And because I had commenced to follow the aforesaid way and had prayed God that He would rid me of them, I had great consolation of their deaths, albeit I did also feel some grief.”

Source : Angela (of Foligno) (1909). “The Book of Divine Consolation of the Blessed Angela of Foligno”
“No pawn exchanges, no file-opening, no attack.”

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