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It was something that was hard to see until you had some measure of success, but it wasn’t success that made one an artist. One was an artist. One was successful or not at selling work, but the sale of art no more made a man an artist than ...more
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Niall Williams
“I know now that, when you get to a grandfather’s age, life takes on the qualities of comedy, with aches.”
Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

Fredrik Backman
“Art is a moment. Art is being a reason. Art is coping with being alive for one more week.”
Fredrik Backman, My Friends

Gillian McAllister
“Quit, if you want to,” she says. “Life’s too short to staple dead Dalmatians to chairs forever.”
Gillian McAllister, The Good Sister

Mary Laura Philpott
“Better to believe the world is at least half-full of decent intentions than to focus on how it’s also half-full of assholes.”
Mary Laura Philpott, Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives

Meg Waite Clayton
“It was something that was hard to see until you had some measure of success, but it wasn’t success that made one an artist. One was an artist. One was successful or not at selling work, but the sale of art no more made a man an artist than it made him a man. An artist simply was.”
Meg Waite Clayton, The Postmistress of Paris

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