"When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons."

-- Jerome Isaac Friedman

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“Experimental artists build their skills gradually over the course of their careers, improving their work slowly over long periods. These artists are perfectionists and are typically plagued by frustration at their inability to achieve their goals.”

Source : David W. Galenson (2011). “Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity”, p.4, Princeton University Press
“If I can steal away and read something other than what I have to for my work, it's restorative.”
“I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try to write as much as I did without falling off of your chair.”
“Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.”

Source : Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation of the world and his situation within it; it leads the thinker to accomplish an act of self-deception for the purpose of justification, obfuscation and evasion in some sense or other to his advantage.”
“I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.”
“Those people who occupy a territory determine the nature of the society in that region.”

Source : Arthur Kemp (2009). “The Lie of Apartheid and other true stories from Southern Africa”, p.2, Lulu.com
“I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.”

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