"How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world."

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Source : Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.169

Augustus William Hare

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“Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to...”

Source : James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.187, Routledge
“I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.”
“If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell.”
“I think of myself as experimenting with different ways of structuring pieces. A lot of it has to do with the computer, of course.”
“When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.”
“I've learned a couple of things. And one of the things I have learned is that every experience has pluses and minuses.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.â€ (p.90)”
“I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.”

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