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"The only artists for whom I would make way are - children. For me the paintings of children belong side by side with the works of the masters."
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"Should it matter what genre it is if the book is good?"
"It's sarcasm, Josh.'Sarcasm?'It's from the Greek, sarkasmos. To bite the lips. It means that you aren't really saying what you mean, but people will get your point. I invented it, Bartholomew named it.'Well, if the village idiot named it, I'm sure it's a good thing.'There you go, you got it.'Got what?'Sarcasm.'No, I meant it.'Sure you did.'Is that sarcasm?'Irony, I think.'What's the difference?'I haven't the slightest idea.'So you're being ironic now, right?'No, I really don't know.'Maybe you should ask the idiot.'Now you've got it.'What?'Sarcasm."
"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"
"Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness."
"She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section."
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"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."
"The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love."
"In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest."
"To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in."
"What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?"
"Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself."
"The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens."
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