Talent isnt genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I wont be a commonplace dauber, so I dont intend to try any more. – Louisa May Alcott
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. – Isaac Bashevis Singer, quoted in You Said a Mouthful edited by Ronald D. Fuchs
But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition. – Oliver Wendell Holmes,Jr.
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. – Wallace Stevens
