The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. This requires a moment of pause--a contract with yourself through the object you look at or the page you read. In that moment of pause, I think life expands. And really the purpose of art--for me, of fiction--is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have. That is the moment of finding something which you have not known about yourself, or your environment, about others and about life. Anonymous
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  1. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
  2. Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
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  4. Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
  5. Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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