"Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind."
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"Pale purple as the bloom om a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches,just turning yellow,with red-berried rowans and thicket of bracken, the heath lay steeped in sunshine."
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"Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present day dances as a poor substitute for the old. From an artistic point of view, they maybe, but in individual freedom and independence of spirit they mark a stage upward."
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"The luxuries of the few were becoming necessities of the many."
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"What is charm, it is not a moral quality, it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to add a grain of it to his personality. One either has it or has it not, it cannot be acquired or even cultivated. It is not physical even, it seems to be added to the human personality, an aura, a glow, the gold dust upon a butterfly's wing, the bloom upon a peach."
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"Words as to the inner emotions do not come readily to me, for I have led an isolated life mentally and spiritually."
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"Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot."
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"Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning poers must be brought to reinforce imagination."
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"What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends?"
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"Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too."
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