"The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter."

Art, Freedom

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"The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter."

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"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

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"No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person."

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"The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world."

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"All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens."

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"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies."

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"The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is."

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"It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of."

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"Where there is great love, there are always wishes."

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"Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening."

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"The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young."

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"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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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."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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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."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"Music is breath of life."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"My poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of acage."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

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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."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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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."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Music gives life to the soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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John Geddes, Canadian Author

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