I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That's before realizing that there is no easy out. Before accepting that you just have to do the work.

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit... view

By: George Grosz

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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain... view

By: Samuel Johnson

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Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do... view

By: Curtis Mayfield

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Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering... view

By: Paulo Coelho

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I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment... view

By: Peter Steele

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There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year... view

By: Richard Lugar

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I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China... view

By: Jung Chang

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Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done... view

By: Lindsey Buckingham

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Interested listeners have only to hear the recording to find out if those guys, who go to such pains to undervalue my work, are right. All people have to do is listen to realize it is a beautiful record... view

By: Bill Dixon

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My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being... view

By: Wole Soyinka

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Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately... view

By: Edward Weston

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You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom... view

By: Corazon Aquino

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