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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
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"The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics."
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"History develops, art stands still."
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"We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life and time."
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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."
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"As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher."
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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
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"Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly."
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"To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him."
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"Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!"
Work

"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."
Fool

"Pearls mean tears."
Symbolism

"A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer."
Thought

"In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better."
Writing

"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."
Truth

"There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be."
Law

"What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better."
Love

"Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them."
People

"Literature is analysis after the event."
Literature
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