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"I laugh, and it sounds like I've been sucking helium."
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"Artistry exists in everyone. What makes it blossom is a soul's personal desire to find an outlet for expression."
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"All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it."
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"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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"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."
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"The music world is where child prodigies go to die."
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"A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,cut holes in it, and called it a human being.Since then, it's been wailing a tender agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a flute."
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"In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art."
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"Birds do not attend music school, but compose timeless masterpieces."
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"The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch."
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"If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land."
Life
"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there."
Life
"Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."
Beauty
"The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman."
Woman
"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue."
Experience
"There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition."
Emotional
"Don't question your conscience so much--it will get out of tune like a strummed piano. Keep it for great occasions."
Morality
"New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire."
Travel
"The place suggested a convent with the modern improvements-an asylum in which privacy, though unbroken, might be not quite identical with privation, and meditation, though monotonous, might be of a cheerful cast."
Philosophy
"I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do."
Independence
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