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"Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction."
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"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."
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"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."
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"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."
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"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."
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"My poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of acage."
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"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."
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"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
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"Music gives life to the soul."
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"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."
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"Music gives strength to the soul."
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"Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now."
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"Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic."
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"All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day."
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"What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?"
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"Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son."
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"I put the words down and push them a bit."
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"Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything."
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"My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally."
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"If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside."
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"There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief."
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