"The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it."

Art, People, Difference, Literature

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"The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it."

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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

Art, Science, Creation

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Art, Limitations, Thinking

"The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Art, Truth, Critics, Authors

"History develops, art stands still."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Art, History

"We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life and time."

Steven Redhead, British Author

Art, Life, Time, Creation

"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

Art, Husband, Job

"As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Art, Happiness, Philosophy, Values

"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Art, Poetry, Love, Emotion, Expression

"To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Art, Poetry, Perception, Vision

"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Art, Man, Medicine, Sickness

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"There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing."

Doubt

"The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing."

Living

"Remarks are not literature."

Literature

"The thing that differentiates man from animals is money."

Money

"Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so."

Man

"Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation."

Religion

"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."

Beginning

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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

"The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics."

"History develops, art stands still."

"We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life and time."

"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

"As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher."

"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

"To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him."

"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."

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"There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing."

"This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition."

"It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business."

"It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself."

"The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing."

"Remarks are not literature."

"The thing that differentiates man from animals is money."

"Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so."

"Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation."

"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."