"Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother."

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Source : Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”

Edmund Clarence Stedman

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“He must love you very much,' Gavril said once I had my footing. I couldn't look at him. 'What makes you say that?' Gavril sighed. 'I've known Maxon since he was a child. He's never stood up to his father like that.”
“The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.”
“The short story is the literature of the nomad.”
“Occupied people are not unhappy people.”
“In my life, I'd like to play more golf and, and get a decent handicap.”
“What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and shape in architecturalcontinuity - the rhythm across their paintings. When I paint a landscape, Iget the greatest pleasure out of composing it. As I paint, I try to work outa visual sonata form or a fugue, with realistic images.”
“I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.”

Source : "Sam Claflin, Finnick Odair: An Interview With The ‘Catching Fire’ Heartthrob". Interview with Dana Matthews, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2013.
“I'm focussing on what I haven't attained, not what I have. A lot has come to me early. I don't want to get consumed with that. Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now. My goal is to play one full game in the now, but I haven't even gotten past the first inning yet. I start thinking about where my mom is or if my dogs have been fed. The average human has 2,000 thoughts a day. The really accomplished have 1,500 because you can focus longer. I need to learn how to focus longer.”

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