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"I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter."
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"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."
"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."
"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."
"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."
"My poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of acage."
"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."
"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."
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"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world."
"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
"Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us."
"Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good."
"Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion."
"It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false."
"If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!"
"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."
"Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary."
"Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones."
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