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"Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth."
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"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
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"Sometimes dead is better."
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"A false potential can dress itself up as attractive ideas."
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"Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion."
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"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true."
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"When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. It took years for me to discover that the first step in finding out the truth is to begin unlearning almost everything adults had taught me, and to start doing all the things they'd told me NOT to do. Their main pitch was that achievement equaled happiness, when all you had to do was study rock stars, or movie stars, or them, to see that they were mostly miserable. They were all running around in mazes like everyone else."
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"The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is I'm full of shit."
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"Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth."
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"Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative."
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"Truth will keep on telling the truthLies will lie to be more uncouthNo more rainbow after the stormNowhere to escape leaving the norm."
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"You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance."
Art
"A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity."
Experience
"Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world."
Expression
"It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience."
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"One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife."
Music
"If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?"
Wife
"There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life."
Experience
"Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth."
Truth
"If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven."
Day
"In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind."
Music
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