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George Jean Nathan

"To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination."

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"To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination."

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"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."

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"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."

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"The proper stuff of fiction does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."

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"Be an artist in everything you do."

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"A good artist does not just make imaginations beautiful to the mind, but also more pleasant to the eye with a superb visible touch of excellence."

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"I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed."

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"The writing of somemenis like a vast bridgethat carries youoverthe many thingsthat claw and tear.The Wine of Forever."

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"Music gives life to the soul."

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"In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up."

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"I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink."
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"The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism."
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"I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost."
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"Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men."
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