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"There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely, but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages."
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"Creativity is a flower of love and a light that is eager to enlighten others."
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"For a poet reality is mysterious, imaginations are magical, and perceptions are magnificent."
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"If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude."
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"I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket."
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"Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again."
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"Imagination is a pleasant phenomenon."
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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."
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"With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly."
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"My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living."
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"The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real."
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"Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use."
Language

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
Wisdom

"Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet."
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"I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up."
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"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do."
Life

"One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning."
Learning

"I had to have company -- I was made for it, I think -- so I made friends with the animals. They are just charming, and they have the kindest disposition and the politest ways; they never look sour, they never let you feel that you are intruding, they smile at you and wag their tail, if they've got one, and they are always ready for a romp or an excursion or anything you want to propose."
Friendship

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
Happiness

"In the afternoon the ship's company assembled aft, on deck, under the awnings; the flute, the asthmatic meodeon, and the consumptive clarinet crippled the Star Spangled Banner, the choir chased it to cover, and George came in with a peculiarly lacerating screech on the final note and slaughtered it. Nobody mourned. We carried out the corpse on three cheers (that joke was not intentional and I do not endorse it)."
Humor

"Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it."
Politics
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