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"Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man."
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"I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career."
"Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you."
"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."
"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."
"Birds do not attend music school, but compose timeless masterpieces."
"I like to think I've written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters."
"Artistry exists in everyone. What makes it blossom is a soul's personal desire to find an outlet for expression."
"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."
"Why I write music? Because it hurts not to."
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"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence."
"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."
"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
"For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end."
"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable."
"All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it."
"No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby."
"The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety."
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