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"Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself."
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"And it's what you never will write," said the Controller. "Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello."

"Birds do not attend music school, but compose timeless masterpieces."

"I laugh, and it sounds like I've been sucking helium."

"The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch."

"There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking."

"I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career."

"Art is to console those who are broken by life."

"Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man."

"In a way, her strangeness, her naivete, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings; had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like any artist with no art from, she became dangerous."
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"There are people.There are stories.The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth.Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies."

"In the sixties, for anybody to suggest that the government didn't have our best interests at heart and policemen sometimes killed people would have automatically made them a radical firebrand lefty. That's not the case anymore."

"I am not man so much as syndrome, as a voice that bellows in the human heart.I am rain.I cannot be contained."

"It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again."

"The third and, given due consideration, most probable of all my theorems, is that life is ordered by the principles of some religion so peculiar and obscure it has no followers, and none may fathom it, nor know the rituals by which to court its favor."
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