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I have collected quotations from sources famous and obscure for many years now. I am pleased to be able to share some of my favorites, on a variety of topics, here. All of the ones I am including here still have, I believe, a great deal of relevance to us today.

ON CREATIVITY

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."

- Erica Jong

"There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness."
- Henry David Thoreau

"Keep an open mind, I always say. Drives sensible people mad, I know, but what did we ever get from sensible people? Not poetry or art or music, that's for sure."
- Charles de Lint

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
- Friedrich Nietzche

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
- Jack London

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
- Albert Einstein

ON THE ENVIRONMENT

"Anyone who thinks humans are not capable of so fouling their own nest that the land and the waters can no longer be productive just hasn't been paying attention."
- Molly Ivins

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
- Kahlil Gibran

"This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there is no resupply. And we are mistreating it."
- Scott Carpenter

"If you don't believe that the world has a heart, then you won't hear it beating, you won't think it's alive and you won't consider what you're doing to it."
- Charles de Lint

"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and we have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form."
- William Ralph Inge

ON LIFE & DEATH

"It gets under your skin, life. ... It's a habit that's hard to give up. One puff of breath is never enough. You'll find you want to take another."
- Terry Pratchet

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov

"My time is probably short in the larger scheme of things, but the day is long."
- Rev. Webster "Kit" Howell

"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."
- Woody Allen

"Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up our enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."
- Samuel Ullman

"In the end,

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