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"Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art."
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"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."
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"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."
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"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."
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"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."
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"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."
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"Music gives life to the soul."
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"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."
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"Music gives strength to the soul."
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"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."
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"The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil."
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"Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius."
Time
"Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art."
Art
"It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope."
Media
"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop."
Soul
"It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel."
Travel
"Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel."
Sex
"One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs."
Action
"Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world."
Evil
"The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive."
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"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."
Doubt
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