"What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air."

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Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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“I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.”
“I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.”
“Court an idea as long as you like, but be careful before marrying it.”
“The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.”
“Isolation breeds conceit.”
“Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.”
“We no longer believe, as we did 250 years ago, that the mentally ill are animals, but we are not yet ready to grant that they are fully human either.”
“While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. We can become the world's greatest experts on anger, jealousy, and self-deprecatio n, as well as on joyfulness, clarity, and insight. Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ourselves, just as we are.”

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