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"I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests."
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"I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it."
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"I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head."
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"I hate the way chorus boxes sound."
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"I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed."
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"I hate a man who always says "yes" to me. When I say "no" I like a man who also says "no.""
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"I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly."
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"I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink."
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"Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."
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"I could never hate anyone I knew."
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"I hate record labels. They think they know everything. I want to hear them try to sing it."
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"Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force."
Genius
"What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?"
Learning
"People believe a little too easily that the function of the sun is to help the cabbages along."
Philosophy
"What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!"
Literature
"Human life is a sad show, undoubtedly; ugly, heavy and complex. Art has no other end, for people of feeling than to conjure away the burden and bitterness."
Art
"Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?"
Imagination
"One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels."
Emotion
"Come, let's be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer."
Literature
"The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature."
Art
"The future is the worst thing about the present."
Future
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