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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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Explore more quotes by Dean Acheson

"Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up."
Military

"I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office."
Office

"The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president."
President

"Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."
Sense

"A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer."
Documentation

"No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies."
History

"If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past."
Art

"The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem."
Attention

"We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation."
Cooperation

"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."
Time
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