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" Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered. "
John Updike
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" We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain set of intelligible skills. "
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" We must be our own before we can be another's. "
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" I feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror. "
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" We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope. "
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" Our first intuitions are the true ones. "
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" Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. "
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" Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better. "
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