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"The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name."
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"Poetry has its own unique language which every mind translates differently according to their own personal view."


"Poetry happens when there is nothing to say but you have a volcano hidden inside you waiting to erupt."


"Filmmaking is not the work of the weak-minded. It may not be rocket science, but it requires ten times more strength of the mind than that."


"Poetry is the truth dressed up with perceptions, emotions, and anxieties of expression."


"I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service.""


"Painting a picture is writing a poem with paint."
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"In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring."

"If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal."

"When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much."

"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again."

"The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff."
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