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"I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
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"I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them."
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"There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain."
Language

"But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to."
Communication

"I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else."
Responsibility

"I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested."
Being

"The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone."
Chance

"And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary."
Quality

"But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable."
Thought

"If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble."
Needs

"So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design."
Design

"And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting."
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