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Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may be immeasurable, art is the mystery of every man and woman and child. In so far as a human being is an artist, skies and mountains and oceans and thunderbolts and butterflies are immeasurable; and art is every mystery of nature. Nothing measurable can be alive; nothing which is not alive can be art; nothing which cannot be art is true: and everything untrue doesn’t matter a very good God damn...


E. E. Cummings

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E. LOCKHART He was a person who couldn't fake a smile but smiled often.
E. LOCKHART Be sad, be sorry-but don't shoulder it.
E. LOCKHART Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than c...
E. LOCKHART Here I am frozen, when I deserve to burn.
E. LOCKHART Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing...
E. LOCKHART If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces.
E. LOCKHART He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.
E. LOCKHART What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?
E. LOCKHART She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
E. LOCKHART A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far ...
E. LOCKHART My boyfriend is named Percocet," I say. "We're very close. I even went to Europe with him last summe...
E. LOCKHART Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell. The bu...
E. LOCKHART ... the God who controls the wheeling galaxies and who spoke before the foundation of the world must...
E. ELLIOT We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.
E. LOCKHART There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.
E. LOCKHART What a night it was! The jagged masses of heavy dark cloud were rolling at intervals from horizon to...
E. NESBIT