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"Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them."
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"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."
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"We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud."
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"He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."
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"I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?"
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"There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once."
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"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."
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"The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book."
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"I like breaking the rules."
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"That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things."
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"The big producer is going to figure out how to deal with whatever the rules are, but the little guy who is running a few hundred units or maybe feeding 1,500 cattle a year, how will they ever comply with these requirements?"
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"Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone."
Media
"Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it."
Art
"Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others."
Ambition
"Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art."
Art
"So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful."
Success
"The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste."
Literature
"I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up."
Work
"My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything."
Creativity
"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."
Society
"A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it."
Family
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