"The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life."

-- Steven Pressfield

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“Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine.”
“The stars handle it very graciously. They let you know. They know how to play the game.”
“It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.”
“Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it.”
“The only thing my old man ever gave me was a beating.”
“Sure there's contagion in the tears of friends.”
“Patience is a conquering virtue.”

Source : Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”
“But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I think there's every reason to believe things can settle out in a situation that is recognizably better than the one we're stuck in today.”

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