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"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness."
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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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"My poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of acage."
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"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."
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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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"A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke."
History
"It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor."
Humor
"Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind."
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"A smile is the universal welcome."
Smile
"I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while."
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"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process."
Life
"Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance."
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"Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest."
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"People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo."
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"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness."
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