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Jonathan Swift

"Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style."

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Amber Hurdle

"I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try."

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"Movies can be instruments of enlightenment."

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"Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition."

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"Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space."

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"By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made."

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"The goal of art was the vital expression of self."

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"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."

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"Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late."

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"When whisperedwhat an exquisitesong, it makes-your name."

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"A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved."

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"If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel."
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"Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives."
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"Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of."
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"He was a bold man that first eat an oyster."
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"One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good."
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"Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride."
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