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"I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible."
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"But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY."
"The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting."
"Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value."
"I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later."
"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values."
"Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it."
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