"Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory."

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Henry Fielding

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“The art I like concentrates on the body. I don't have a feel for Poussin, but for Courbet, VelÃ¡squez - artists who get to the flesh. Visceral artists - Bacon, Freud. And de Kooning, of course. He's really my man. He doesn't depict anything, yet it's more than representation, it's about the meaning of existence and pushing the medium of paint.”

Source : "Under the skin" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2005.
“A few years ago, the Bose Acoustics Corporation had a new product, the Bose Wave Music System. And their ad campaign for it was not successful until they changed one thing. At the top of the ad they said, "Hear what you've been missing." And that caused the skyrocketing of the interest in purchasing of the product. Why? Because with something new, people are uncertain, and when they are uncertain, they want to avoid losses.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read.”
“The cross is the greatest example of humility and devotion in the universe. Jesus put your needs ahead of His own. He considered you more valuable than Himself.”

Source : Chip Ingram (2009). “True Spirituality: Becoming a Romans 12 Christian”, p.199, Simon and Schuster
“It's frustrating in the sense that I still think I could be competing at some sport at a fairly high level, which nobody cares about. Nobody wants to hear me say that.”
“Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.”
“Life is not measured by the time we live.”

Source : George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.98
“I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel.”

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