"The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people."

People, Act, Quiet

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"The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people."

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"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."

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"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."

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"I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know."

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"If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point."

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"The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner."

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"Wars are made to make debt."

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"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values."

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"Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art."

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"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."

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"People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf."

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."

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"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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