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 Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age. - Bible  Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, if you have that, but learn to love what you have. The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless. One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar. Let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action. The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction. Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear, the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source on which I can draw, because it comes from within me. One bliss for which there is no match is when you itch to up and scratch. Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation. A prudent wife is from the Lord. - Bible The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers. God is a verb, not a noun. This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal. Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies. The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live. Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown. There is today an extraordinary interest with the data of modern experience per se. Our absorption in our contemporary historical state is very high right now. It's not altogether unlike a similar situation in seventeenth century Holland, where wealthy merchants wanted their portraits done with all their blemishes included. It is the height of egotism, in a sense, to think even one's blemishes are of significance. So today Americans seem to want their writers to reveal all their weaknesses, their meannesses, to celebrate their very confusions. And they want it in the most direct possible way - they want it served up neat, as it were, without the filtering and generalizing power of fiction. 
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