Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of.

Alice Sebold

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

Leo Tolstoy

It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

George Eliot

Intent on one great love, perfect, Requited and for ever, I missed love's everywhere Small presence, thousand-guised.

Kathleen Raine

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

John Garamendi

Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.

Liz Phair

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

Scott Alexander

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

G. Gordon Liddy

I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.

Deidre Hall

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.

Henny Youngman

The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour. The hand of fate guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatings of the heart of manifestation.

Helen P. Blavatsky, The Voice of

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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