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"Expansion. That is the idea the novelist must cling to. Not completion. Not rounding off, but opening out."
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"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."
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"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."
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"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."
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"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."
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"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
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"Music gives life to the soul."
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"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."
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"Music gives strength to the soul."
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"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."
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"The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil."
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"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna."
Beauty
"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
Information
"Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable."
Evil
"Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another."
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"Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient."
Communication
"Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety."
Religion
"Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man."
Man
"England has always been disinclined to accept human nature."
Nature
"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."
Love
"One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves."
Family
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