“Bad art and good art feel remarkably the same, while they're in progress.”
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“The great direction which Burton has left to men disordered like you, is this: Be not solitary; be not idle—which I would thus modify: If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.”
― The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume V: Appendices & Comprehensive Index
― The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume V: Appendices & Comprehensive Index
“And you, mother, stood behind me,
impatient to be going,
old at twenty-three, alone,
thin overcoat flapping.”
― Armada
impatient to be going,
old at twenty-three, alone,
thin overcoat flapping.”
― Armada
“This then is the scribe’s direct purpose: the making of useful things legibly beautiful.”
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