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"An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's."
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"Perfect, faultless, in ruins, yes, but perfect,nevertheless."
"The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light."
"Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it."
"Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier."
"Perfection is ordinary, imperfection is beauty."
"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
"Let people be the pursuits of happiness, you be the pursuit of perfection."
"One minute was enough, Tyler said, "A person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."
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"What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."
"He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world."
"I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are."
"I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going around and around. I was damn near bawling, I felt so damn happy, if you want to know the truth."
"They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good."
"There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy."
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