"It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence."

Art, Work, Effort, Hard work

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"It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence."

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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"I see my life in terms of music."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"The crushed teapot in the rubbish of the bulldozed house will sing in your ears forever."

Alice Walker, American Author

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"History develops, art stands still."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life and time."

Steven Redhead, British Author

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

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"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?"

Animals, Earth, Living

"What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print."

Will,

"We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity."

Opportunity, First, Laws, May

"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences."

Marriage, Consequences, Woman

"So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance."

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"Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved."

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"The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking."

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"So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world."

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"With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood."

Glory, Motherhood

"It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence."

Art, Work, Effort, Hard work