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"Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?"
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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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"My poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of acage."
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"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."
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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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"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."
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"Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?"
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"Civilization is what makes you sick."
Civilization

"Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite."
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"I shut my eyes in order to see."
Introspection

"There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite."
Quality

"It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block."
Perception

"Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them."
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"Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge."
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"We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves."
Self-Awareness
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