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The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one\'s obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.



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



In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.



Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.



The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.



Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five



We are most alive when we're in love



He had a sensation of anxiety and shame, a sensitivity acute beyond usefulness, as if the nervous system, flayed of its old hide of social usage, must record every touch of pain



Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over animation. One can either see or be seen.



Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.



A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.



One of the cool, chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.



It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.



It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.








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