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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
"As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher."
"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
"To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him."
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"But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death."
"I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child."
"I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any."
"I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening."
"I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself."
"I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles."
"I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either."
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