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"Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal."
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"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."
"A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked."
"On the whole, stories don't write themselves."
"Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without 'Art' is just 'Eh"
"What doesn't kill me provides writing material."
"Let's pursue the visage of imagination."
"Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us."
"If you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain..."
"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"
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"Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony."
"Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect."
"Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere."
"We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian."
"It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it."
"The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather."
"There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination."
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