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What I didn't realize when I was in school and what I suspect a lot of young writers today don't get either is that you have to create the world that you want to exist in as an artist.
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In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society.
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Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?
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I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings.
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I don't know, maybe Australian humour isn't supposed to be funny. It's as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss that.
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I want to sound like Christopher Cross in another ten years, and be totally proud of it.
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Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.
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Europe has to secure its borders and support those in the neighborhood who share our values.
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The intellectual ... may live for ideas, as I have said, but something must prevent him from living for one idea, from becoming obsessive or grotesque. Although there have been zealots whom we may still regard as intellectuals, zealotry is a defect of the breed and not of the essence.
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The Lord has many lovers of His crown but few lovers of His Cross.
