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"When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than an artist."
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"The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live."
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"The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location."
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"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."
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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
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