To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

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A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps...

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps...

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money...

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money...

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they...

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they...

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet...

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet...

The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces...

The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces...

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

The moment you're born you're done for.

The moment you're born you're done for.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that...

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that...

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient...

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient...

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by...

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by...

Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They...

Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They...

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there...

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there...

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live...

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live...

Anthology construction is one of the pleasantest hobbies that a person who is not mad...

Anthology construction is one of the pleasantest hobbies that a person who is not mad...

When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. It's obsession at first...

When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. It's obsession at first...

If you asked me to name the three scariest threats facing the human race, I...

If you asked me to name the three scariest threats facing the human race, I...

Sometimes the game of golf is just too difficult to endure with a golf club...

Sometimes the game of golf is just too difficult to endure with a golf club...