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“Memory Serves." Duplicitous couplet.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
― Socrates

“When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden age, for we all had nothing to lose and a vision to gain. Today it is not quite the same. It is a time of tons of verbiage, activity, consumption. Which condition is better for the world at large I shall not venture to discuss. But I do know, that many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow. We must all hope we find them.”
― Mark Rothko

“I asked Grace why all our pictures of Jesus show him as a white man”
― M.W. Craven, The Mercy Chair

“Of Prayer”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov