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What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look. ↗

— Chuck Close

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I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

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The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#lie #published #until #writer #you

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

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I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery. ↗

— Ty Cobb

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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

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I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded. ↗

— David Allan Coe

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Still to this day, I am deeply satisfied when watching a guitar player who is connected with their art and instrument. GuitarTV helps you tap into that connection, and to each other. ↗

— Steve Vai

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You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

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Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#matter #sin #spell #still #you