Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives. - Nancy Hale

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We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people. . . it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Nancy Hale

Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives.

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The best work of artists in any age is the work of innocence liberated by technical knowledge. The laboratory experiments that led to the theory of pure color equipped the impressionists to paint nature as if it had only just been created.

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The dark has to be contained in the light or the light will be contained in the dark.

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We might likewise say that humans are the neurotics of the animal world, in that they are the only animals who must choose to be instead of just instinctively being.

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If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.

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Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

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Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird?. . . people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

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I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.

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