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Drawing and Painting Beautiful Flowers: Discover Techniques for Creating Realistic Florals and Plants in Pencil and Watercolor

by Kyehyun Park

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Beautiful Ruins

by Jess Walter

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“If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life

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“The universe hiccups, and we poor fools try to figure out why.”
― Matthew Quick, The Good Luck of Right Now

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“Fly! There's a lot of sky out there for brave birds.”
― Matthew Quick, The Good Luck of Right Now

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“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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“I admire you your willingness to offer kindness almost indiscriminately. But unfortunately, it takes a lot more than kindness to survive in this world." I understood what she meant, but I also understood that Mom's philosophy was a powerful weapon.”
― Matthew Quick, The Good Luck of Right Now

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