Why must these people go on, and on, copying, copying fragm… - Emily Carr

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Why must these people go on, and on, copying, copying fragments of old relics from extinct churches, and old tombs as though those were the best that could ever be, and it would be a sacrilege to beat them? Why didn't they want to out-do the best, instead of copying, always copying what had been done?

Emily Carr

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Emily Carr (13 December 1871 – 2 March 1945) was a Canadian artist and writer.

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Alternative Names: M. Emily Carr • Emily M. Carr • Klee Wyck

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It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.

The old man sawed as if aeons of time were before him, and as if all the years behind him had been leisurely and all the years in front of him would be equally so. Life had sweetened the old man. He was luscious with time like the end berries of the strawberry season.

I wonder will death be much lonelier than life. Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You can live close against other people yet your lives never touch. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even coming and going.

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