"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life."
-William Morris
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"A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.“
-William Morris
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"History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created."
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"It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last."
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"I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few."
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"If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art."
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"So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die that is to say, civilization will die."
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"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
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