Edward Albee

Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

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Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

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John Updike

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

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Margaret Hilda Thatcher

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

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Miguel de Cervantes

The more thou stir it, the worse it will be.

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Jean Cocteau

Art is science made clear.

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Abraham Maslow

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

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Erik H. Erikson

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

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Walter Savage Landor

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

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Groucho Marx

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

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