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"A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first."
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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."
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"Create with the heart, build with the mind."
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"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?"
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"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."
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"Music communicates with the soul."
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"Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting."
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"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."
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"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
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"Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms."
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"When it came to my art, I went my own way and did not follow the trends."
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"To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder."
Faith
"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning."
Hope
"He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go."
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"All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I."
Nature
"Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen."
Travel
"To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain."
Politics
"Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value."
Wisdom
"A good beginning makes a good end."
Wisdom
"People only talk about how wonderful youth is when they have forgotten how hard it was."
Life
"I've noticed...that whenever a man is asked to be realistic he is being asked to betray something in which he believes. It is the favorite argument of those who believe that only the end matters, not the means."
Philosophy
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