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That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about faith

If a tenant attempts to replace the washer in a faucet, plan on replacing the faucet; perhaps all the plumbing in the building.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about real estate

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Quote by Walter Pater about writers, poetry, beauty, art, magic

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

Quote by André Breton about rules, life