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"To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences."
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"No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist."
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"But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history -- that potential genius can never become actual unless it finds or makes the Form which it requires."
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"And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right."
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"We are all artists, painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds."
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"Her words dance on the page."
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"When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages."
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"The most powerful creative state to bring your desires into reality is by bring the conscious and subconscious into unison then keeping your heart and mind in perfect sync."
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"When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened."
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"I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say."
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"I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing."
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"The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience."
Wisdom
"Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived."
Life
"Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race."
Law
"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."
Society
"Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions."
Idea
"Systems die instincts remain."
Philosophy
"I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny it."
Affirmation
"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy."
Equality
"People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail."
People
"The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God."
Faith
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