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

"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."

"Be an artist in everything you do."

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

"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."

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
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"All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'."

"The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster."

"What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?"
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