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"In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries."
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"The value of time is immeasurable."

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

"Time passes..and a billion lives are affected in ways we'll never know."

"Time is standing still, but we are running away from it and complaining that time is slipping away from us."

"Time is the sole photographer of all the times, from the Big Bang till the possible Big Crunch!"
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"The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting."

"Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use."

"Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear."

"If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates."

"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."

"If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval."

"Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value."

"Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents."
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