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"I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later."
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"Do the good work, with the resources you have."
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"To business that we love we rise betime And go to it with delight."
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"The purpose of work is to labor and invest time in your gift."
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"If you don't leave your job, your job will leave you someday."
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"Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!"
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"You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job."
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"With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in."
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"Employment should not be your permanent assignment."
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"Employment will fail you someday."
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"What to wear: An employee chooses. How to dress: His employer chose."
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"The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity."
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"The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy."
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"Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin."
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"Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value."
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"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."
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"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."
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"Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use."
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"The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner."
Art

"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."
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"I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later."
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