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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

"As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher."

"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

"To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him."
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"I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real."

"Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome."

"Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man."

"Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women."

"One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made."

"I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid."
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