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"I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me."
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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"The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal."
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"I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude."
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"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."
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"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."
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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."
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"Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy."
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"For us chess players the language of artist is something natural."
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"So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we had done for the artists' side of the industry with G.O.D. had been just as quickly undone by the big boys."
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"I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them."
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"Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred."
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"Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice."
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"You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go."
Nature

"It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become."
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"I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more."
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"Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate."
Evil

"You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government."
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"Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda."
Entrepreneurs

"I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph."
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"Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in."
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