"There is only one question: / how to love this world."

-- Mary Oliver

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“There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors.”
“The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.”

Source : Caxton's edition (c.1478) of Chaucer's translation of Boethius 'De Consolacione Philosophie' epilogue
“My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the leftovers from the creative processes, the ashes. My pictures, after all, are only the title-deeds to my property which I have to produce when I am asked to prove that I am a proprietor.”
“My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.”

Source : "Surfer on the new wave" by Peter Lennon, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2001.
“It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.”
“I never wanted to get into high end in Colombia - the percentage of people who can afford it is very small, and they can shop abroad anyway. It's just not what I had in mind. I wanted to bring international fashion to as many people here as possible, who don't usually get exposed to such styles.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.”
“My workday is non-stop break-neck high stakes and high pressure. Every day.”

Source : Source: www.usatoday.com

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