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"The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence."
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"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."
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"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."
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"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."
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"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."
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"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
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"Music gives life to the soul."
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"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."
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"Music gives strength to the soul."
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"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."
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"The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil."
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Explore more quotes by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

"Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour."
Pleasure

"Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows."
Reputation

"What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits."
Crime

"Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love."
Love

"Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good."
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"Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime."
Crime

"War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men."
Man

"Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters."
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"Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government."
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"To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man."
Fool
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