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Last modified: 3/12/08
The Quotable Books Series ...
The Art of Living
Artists, Photographers, Architects, Designers, Cartoonists, Poets, Writers, Novelists, and Critics on Art and Life
(sample quotations from the book)
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't. Richard Bach, novelist
The reason birds can fly and we cannot is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. James Matthew Barrie, children's author
If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. Calvin of Calvin & Hobbes comic strip
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. Paul Cezanne, painter
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction author
To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. e. e. cummings, poet
If a man throws himself out of the fourth floor window, and you cant make a sketch of him before he gets to the ground, you will never do anything big. Eugθne Delacroix, painter
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen. Simply wait. Do not even wait; be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet. Franz Kafka, novelist
The soul can split the sky in two,
and let the face of God shine through.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, poetIf you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. Toni Morrison, novelist
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar. Pablo Picasso, artist
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. Rainer Maria Rilke, poet
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower drives my green soul. Dylan Thomas, poet
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. Paul Valery, poet and critic
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