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Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.
She soars on her own wings.
Above all, art should be fun.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
My friends have made the story of my life.
Mothers reflect God's loving presence on earth.
If you're not having fun, you're doing it wrong.
How lucky we are to have such a treasure of memories.
Don't take your toys inside just because it's raining.
It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.
All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it.
Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.
I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual.
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths.
I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past
Maybe the body is taking responsibility where the mind is not. It's scrapbooking for us.
Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.
My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.
When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yourself.' It's like chocolate-chip cookies. People buy the cookie-dough roll and slice it, and then they lay it on a cookie sheet. That's not making chocolate-chip cookies.
