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“And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.”
― The Secret Garden
― The Secret Garden
“White roses and red roses: those were beautiful colours to think of. And the cards for first place and second place and third place were beautiful colours too: pink and cream and lavender. Lavender and cream and pink roses were beautiful to think of. Perhaps a wild rose might be like those colours and he remembered the song about the wild rose blossoms on the little green place. But you could not have a green rose. But perhaps somewhere in the world you could.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.”
― Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
― Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.”
― Dance Dance Dance
― Dance Dance Dance
“But you could not have a green rose. But perhaps somewhere in the world you could.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Dubliners
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Dubliners
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