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"He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession."
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"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."
"Personality is everything in art and poetry."
"Every song is a story unfolding."
"And the rain drops kept falling like the sweetest musicleaving tears on the glass,which is what music does to memost of the timebut silence too. and rain."
"The mystery of esthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the god of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails."
"Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song."
"Should it matter what genre it is if the book is good?"
"Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet singing to another, high stretched and full of different voices starting at different notes and sloping down to other different notes but all weaving together in a rope of sound that's sad but not sad and slow but not slow and all singing one word. One word."
"To say that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic merit, is no better than to say he is rheumatic or diabetic."
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"For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed."
"When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable."
"One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention."
"My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father."
"When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before."
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