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"Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."
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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
"Music heals all forms of misery."
"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."
"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."
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"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."
"Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went."
"The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever."
"Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five."
"The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist."
"Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading."
"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."
"Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop, the gut expanded to take in more and more."
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