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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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"My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father."

"When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable."

"When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before."

"For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed."

"One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention."
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