"Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these."

-- Ansel Adams

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“You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.”
“I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.”
“When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface”
“If someone breaks into your home when you're there - that is, they don't wait to be sure that the house is empty - it's a bad situation. Honor doesn't come into it at all. Anything you need to do to survive at that point becomes A-OK.”
“Your system was liable to periodical convulsions...business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.”

Source : "Looking Backward, 2000-1887". Book by Edward Bellamy. Chapter 22, 1888.
“I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character in a novel which remains to be written, and I float, aerial, scattered without ever having been, among the dreams of a creature who did not know how to finish me off.”
“The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity.”
“I guess it's pretty diverse, but I do have quite a 30-and-older male audience coming out to the shows. I don't know if that's due to me being a female or what.”

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