"If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little."

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

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Kenneth Clark, British Author

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"Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living."

Bill Dixon, American Musician

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Nora Roberts, American Author

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"She considered him further and decided he could definitely pass for a pirate. No, she thought, correcting herself. More like a sea captain, a younger version of the captain from that old movie where the pretty woman rents an old sea captain's house only to find the place haunted by the sea captain himself.She let out a heavy breath. Man, she loved that movie."

Madison Thorne Grey, American Author

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"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."

"Music awaken our soul."

"Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment."

"One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner."

"You put butterflies back into my soul and painted their wings with passion and poetry."

"No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals."

"Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living."

"Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows."

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"He who does not tire, tires adversity."

"A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men."

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