“If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. “
—Edward Hopper, painter (1882-1967).
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Pierre Bayle: No less wit nor less invention
Pierre Bayle (Photo credit: Stifts- och landsbiblioteket i Skara)
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. –Pierre Bayle, philosopher and writer (1647-1706)
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Mark Twain: Truth and fiction
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
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Anais Nin: Living ideas
English: Photograph of Anaïs Nin as a teenager, circa 1920. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living
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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Being sorry
Cicero, Kopiezeichnung einer Büste aus London (Herzog Wellington) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone. ”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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John Calvin: Hell of a living soul
“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. ”
John Calvin (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Anatole France: Vain sounds
English: Anatole France (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them. –Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)
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