"Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur."

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"Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur."

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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Being, Feeling, Words

"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Being, Opponents

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Being, Benefits, Duty, World

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Being, Pleasure

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Being, Giving, Man, World

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Being, Dignity, May, Water

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Being, Nothing

"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Being, Action, Inspirational, Truth, Life

"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Being, Man, Woman

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Being, Earth, Profession

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"Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost."

Writing,

"The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel."

Travel,

"When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!"

Writing, Prose

"I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal."

Emotional, Feeling

"I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s."

Love, Peace, War, Music

"Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur."

Being,

"I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not."

Poetry, People, Painting

"Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception."

Advertising, Deception, Irony, Politicians

"I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world."

Friendship, Poetry, Friends, World

"It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling."

Travel, Perceptions