Nancy Hale Quotes

#1. The dark has to be contained in the light or the light will be contained in the dark.

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#2. To do anything, it is first necessary to be doing nothing.

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#3. The dead hand of research lies heavy on too many novels.

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#4. Mine! There isn't any such thing as mine. The world slips slithering through my fingers.

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#5. If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.

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#6. Imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.

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#7. The more specific you are, the more universal you are.

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#8. One must find one's natural home, not try to construct it.

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#9. Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives.

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#10. We might likewise say that humans are the neurotics of the animal world, in that they are the only animals who must choose to be instead of just instinctively being.

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#11. The best work of artists in any age is the work of innocence liberated by technical knowledge. The laboratory experiments that led to the theory of pure color equipped the impressionists to paint nature as if it had only just been created.

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#12. What man can imagine he may one day achieve.

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#13. In order to go anywhere it is necessary to be where one is.

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#14. After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been ... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

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#15. Never give away your work. People don't value what they don't have to pay for.

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#16. Creation lives alone in a small temple. Only one may worship at a time.

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#17. It seems as if when you try to do just one thing and nothing but, you can't do it at all. You do everything better if there's more than one thing.

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#18. Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

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