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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
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"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."
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"History develops, art stands still."
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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."
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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
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"Sing the song and let people do the interpretation. It is your duty to sing the unsung songs and it is their duty to do the interpretation."
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"Music heals all forms of misery."
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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."
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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."
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"Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea."
Art

"The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow."
Opinion

"Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope."
Time

"The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself."
American

"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea."
Idea

"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students."
College

"What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down."
Trust

"There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation."
Moderation

"Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone."
Money

"It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions."
Men
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