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"Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction."
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"I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state."
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"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
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"Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."
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"I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own."
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"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."
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"Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination."
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"A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory."
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"Decide on what you think is right and stick to it."
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"An indictment is not a conviction."
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"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."
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"Though lovers be lost love shall not."
Love
"Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name."
Man
"There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright."
Art
"Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity."
Fool
"I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay."
Development
"The function of posterity is to look after itself."
Legacy
"Do not go gentle into that good night."
Night
"Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction."
Politics
"Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party."
Writing
"Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction."
Conviction
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