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My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
— Thomas Hardy
Tags: writing, skill-technique, passion, creativity, creation, competence, art

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Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
— Thomas Hardy
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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
— Thomas Hardy
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My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
— Thomas Hardy
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Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.
— Thomas Hardy
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The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
— Thomas Hardy
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