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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - December 14, 2014
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915  
A mind too active is no mind at all.
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Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963)  
Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999  
There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man--with human flesh.
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Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune  
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