"The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy."

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Source : "Stella Vespertina" by Georges Rouault, 1947.

Georges Rouault

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“the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit.”
“Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.”
“Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and many calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.”

Source : "The Doctrine of Chances: Or, A Method of Calculating the Probabilities of Events in Play".
“Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.”
“STYLE IS NOT HOW YOU WRITE IT IS HOW YOUDO NOT WRITE LIKE ANYONE ELSE”
“If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress.”

Source : "History in the Making: Dems Force Debate on Ohio Voting Irregularities". www.democracynow.org. January 7, 2005.
“I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.”
“It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism.”

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