"If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him."

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Source : Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

Charles Webster Hawthorne

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“Cath wished she didn't use the word "just" so much. It was her passive-aggressive tell, like someone who twitched when they were lying.”
“And I kissed him back so hard, like I was trying to merge our bodies through our lips.”
“There are lots of signs that average Israelis want peace. But after such a long war - this conflict has been going on now for 120 years - you have a fifth generation being born into it on both sides. Such a conflict creates hatred, fears, stereotypes, and demonizations of the other. It would be an illusion to believe you can put an end to this overnight.”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“The solar system is so humongous big.”
“People sometimes forget when you remember, but they always remember when you forget.”
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.”
“It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one promise fattens the usurer (banker), and the other helps the people. If the currency issued by the Government were no good, then the bonds issued would be no good either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to increase the national wealth, must go into debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious values of gold.”
“At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.”

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