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"My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real."
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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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"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."
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"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."
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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
Being

"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."
Happiness

"The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family."
Family

"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."
Art

"I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly."
Love

"Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying."
Life

"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
Music

"It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs."
Existence
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