Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heavens sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

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Go into the Arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.

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Guy de Maupassant • Henry David Thoreau • Anna Eleanor Roosevelt • Voltaire • Confucius • Friedrich Nietzsche • Mike Monteiro • Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White • Theodor Seuss Geisel • John Maeda • anonymous • Albert Einstein • Martin Luther King Jr. • Marshall McLuhan • Steven Wright • Zig Ziglar • Kurt D. Cobain • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra • Kahlil Gibran • Paul Rand • Toni Morrison • Mahatma Gandhi • Anais Nin • Annie Proulx

Kurt Vonnegut

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