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| | America is now ill with a powerful mutant strain of intertwined ignorance, anti-rationalism, and anti-intellectualism.
—Susan Jacoby |
| | Beauty is simply accuracy, to come as close as we can to what seems to be the real.
—Mark Doty |
| | Composition is an open ended puzzle in three or four dimensions.
—David Ward |
| | Composition is knowing where to stand.
—Ansell Adams |
| | Decay can be halted, but only briefly, and then it resumes. It is the negative image of history.
—John Brinkerhoff Jackson |
| | Language is hungry. It wants, as it were, to eat everything. Even the falling and fading world, even misery.
—Mark Doty |
| | Failure is only opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
—Henry Ford |
| | Feminine light doesn’t come from above, doesn’t fall, doesn’t strike, doesn’t go through. It radiates. This light doesn’t plant, it spawns.
—Hélène Cixous |
| | Heaven preserve us from all the sleek and dowdy virtues, such as punctuality, conscientiousness, fidelity and smugness! ... Novelty is the very essence of genius and always will be.
—Violet Keppel |
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