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"It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."
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"I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically."
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"You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed."
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"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."
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"It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."
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"There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon."
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"When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise."
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"I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true."
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"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."
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"I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop."
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"I just cash in on the fact that I'm good looking, and I've got a nice figure and girls like me."
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"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
Dream
"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."
Dream
"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'"
Nature
"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."
Power
"It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."
Fact
"The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world."
Death
"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
Beauty
"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"
Death
"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be."
Genius
"That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful."
Beauty
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