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> [It is impossible to know what fate will bring. If you love to write or paint, you will keep on writing or painting, and things will either work out or not, and you just have to keep being in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maira-kalman/it-is-impossible-to-know-what-fate-will-bring-if-you-love-to-write-or/)

[Maira Kalman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maira-kalman/)

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## More by Maira Kalman

> [Go out and walk. That is the glory of life,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maira-kalman/go-out-and-walk-that-is-the-glory-of-life/)

[Maira Kalman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maira-kalman/)

> [I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maira-kalman/i-don-t-listen-to-the-news-i-don-t-read-the-newspaper-unless-it-s/)

[Maira Kalman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maira-kalman/)

> [I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maira-kalman/i-have-been-working-for-over-30-years-and-am-always-wondering-about/)

[Maira Kalman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maira-kalman/)

> [I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on it for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maira-kalman/i-still-do-have-the-little-lunch-bag-that-my-mother-made-out-of-a/)

[Maira Kalman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maira-kalman/)

> [My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maira-kalman/my-short-attention-span-has-allowed-me-a-life-of-diversity-in-work/)

[Maira Kalman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maira-kalman/)

> [Every Monday morning is new hope.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maira-kalman/every-monday-morning-is-new-hope/)

[Maira Kalman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maira-kalman/)

> [We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive dualism, revised…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maira-kalman/we-could-speak-about-the-meaning-of-life-vis-a-vis-non-consequential/)

[Maira Kalman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maira-kalman/)

> [Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maira-kalman/wonderful-things-happen-when-your-brain-is-empty/)

[Maira Kalman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maira-kalman/)

> [I have many questions, but no patience to think them through.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maira-kalman/i-have-many-questions-but-no-patience-to-think-them-through/)

[Maira Kalman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maira-kalman/)

> [I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's going to be a complete disaster. I'm going…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maira-kalman/i-m-in-a-complete-state-of-panic-before-i-begin-something-because-i-m/)

[Maira Kalman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maira-kalman/)

> [I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maira-kalman/i-like-the-brooding-man-a-brooding-man-with-a-sense-of-humor/)

[Maira Kalman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maira-kalman/)

> [You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maira-kalman/you-d-have-to-be-completely-crazy-not-to-be-influenced-by-and-take/)

[Maira Kalman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maira-kalman/)

> [It is impossible to know what fate will bring. If you love to write or paint, you will keep on writing or painting, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maira-kalman/it-is-impossible-to-know-what-fate-will-bring-if-you-love-to-write-or/)

[Maira Kalman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maira-kalman/)

> [My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maira-kalman/my-dream-is-to-walk-around-the-world-a-smallish-backpack-all/)

[Maira Kalman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maira-kalman/)

> [“The man stands behind the man. The seated man thinks, "For heaven's sake, stop standing behind me. You are driving me mad. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maira-kalman/the-man-stands-behind-the-man-the-seated-man-thinks-for-heaven-s-sake/)

[Maira Kalman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maira-kalman/)

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