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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
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“Art is a moment. Art is being a reason. Art is coping with being alive for one more week.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“I know now that, when you get to a grandfather’s age, life takes on the qualities of comedy, with aches.”
― This Is Happiness
― This Is Happiness
“Quit, if you want to,” she says. “Life’s too short to staple dead Dalmatians to chairs forever.”
― The Good Sister
― The Good Sister
“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.”
― Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives
― Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives
“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.”
― The Postmistress of Paris
― The Postmistress of Paris
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