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Wallace Stevens

"The genuine artist is never "true to life." He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life."

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"The genuine artist is never "true to life." He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life."

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Donna Grant

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

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"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

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"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

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"Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom."
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"Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into."
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"The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire."
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"Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!"
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"In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature."
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"Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility."
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"The fire burns as the novel taught it how."
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"The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it."
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"The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence."
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