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"A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct."
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"Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form."

"When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace."

"If its almost right its wrong. Pay attention to your hesitation."
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"Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts."

"Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear."

"If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates."

"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."

"It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week."

"Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value."

"The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people."
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