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"Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man."
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"Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself."
"Art is to console those who are broken by life."
"Why I write music? Because it hurts not to."
"The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch."
"He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands."
"Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you."
"There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking."
"5.57am and I'm finishing the last poem to the taste of the last cigarette. Smoke in my lungs, poetry on the paper. Inhale, exhale, it doesn't get much easier."
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"If after I depart this vale you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl."
"The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots."
"Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it."
"One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring."
"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."
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