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"What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right."
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"I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick."
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"I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me."
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"I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song."
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"The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it."
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"All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach."
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"It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last."
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"I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different."
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"But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in."
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"So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be."
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"She lives in the poetry she cannot write."
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"The costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life."
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"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
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"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you."
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"What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read."
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"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."
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"The ages live in history through their anachronisms."
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"The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass."
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