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“Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.”
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“... people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.”
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“Sometimes we forget that if we do not encourage new work now, we will lose all touch with the work of the past we claim to love. If art is not living in a continuous present, it is living in a museum, only those working now can complete the circuit between the past, present and future energies we call art.”
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“The only people who think writing is easy are people who don't write. Writing's a difficult, courageous act. Bravery is required, as well as a great deal of slogging along. A lot of our work is work.”
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“I shop therefore I am.”
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“Theosophy, a doctrine which teaches that all which exists is animated or informed by the Universal Soul or Spirit, and that not an atom in our universe can be outside of this omnipresent Principles — is pure Spiritualism. As to the belief that goes under that name, namely, belief in the constant communication of the living with the dead, whether through the mediumistic powers of oneself or a so-called medium — it is no better than the materialization of spirit, and the degradation of human and divine souls. Believers in such communications are simply dishonoring the dead and performing constant sacrilege.”
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“The art of living is simply the art of using energy in an intelligent and creative way.”
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“I remember leaving the hospital ... thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.'”