"Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents."

Life, Men, Books, Deep

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"Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents."

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"The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting."

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"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."

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"I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know."

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"If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point."

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"The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner."

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"Wars are made to make debt."

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"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values."

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"Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art."

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"The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism."

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"Will a loving God send a man to hell? The answer from Jesus and His teachings of the Bible is, clearly, “Yes!” He does not send man willingly, but man condemns himself to eternal hell because . . .he refuses God's way of salvation and the hope of eternal life with Him."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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"Things past redress are now with me past care."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Hate is hostility."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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