"With a book in your hand...you can go anywhere you want"

-- F.E. Higgins

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“I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.”
“With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.”
“A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be.”
“What I don't write is as important as what I write.”
“Eyes that displace the neighbor diamond, and outface that sunshine by their own sweet grace.”
“Sometimes I miss the spirit of London, but it's a very gray place.”
“The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to publishing, and universities, with access to the major book reviews, they were able to pose as the vanguard of American culture when they were so obsessed with the two Joes--McCarthy and Stalin--that they were to produce only two artists, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, who left town.”
“Every man or woman is a potential poet or artist. Everyone has the capacity to bring to their work the dignity, purposefulness, and presence of the artist.”

Source : Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.184, Penguin

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