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Language
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If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein, (attributed)
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Language
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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Language
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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein, (attributed)
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Persistence
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We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
-Tobias Wolff, 'In Pharaoh's Army'
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Authors & Writing
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There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it’s why you want to become a writer — because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.
-Tobias Wolff
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Age
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"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.
-George E. Woodberry
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Art
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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
-George E. Woodberry
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Children
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Oh happy we, the first-born heirs of nature,
For whom the Heavenly Sun delays his light!
He by the sweets of every mortal creature
Tempers eternal beauty to our sight;
And by the glow upon love's earthly feature
Maketh the path of our departure bright.
-George E. Woodberry, Immortal Love (last verse), 1900
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Artist, The
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There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
-Emile Zola
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Artist, The
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I am an artist. I am here to live out loud.
-Emile Zola
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