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"Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use."
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"We are all capable of being great dreamers."
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"We are all capable!"
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"Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you're lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent's preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it's supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, like the dew at dawn. If talent's the foundation you rely on, and yet it's so unreliable that you have no idea what's going to happen to it the next minute, what meaning does it have?"
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"We are capable of great works through the mighty power of the Holy Spirit."
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"So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime."
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"The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting."
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"You have divine abilities for a great mission."
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"The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be."
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"Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner."
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"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
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"Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use."
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"Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear."
Language

"The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people."
War

"Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture."
Art

"I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them."
Man

"If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval."
Music

"I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible."
Worth

"Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man."
Art

"And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will."
Poetry

"When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."
Business
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