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"There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances."
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"The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish."
Heaven
"There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief."
Trust
"Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression."
Crime
"Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'."
Nation
"Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction."
Art
"News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead."
Care
"Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son."
Family
"You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course."
Society
"If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside."
Being
"In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice."
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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."
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"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."
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"If I had waited long enough I probably never would have written anything at all since there is a tendency when you really begin to learn something about a thing not to want to write about it but rather to keep on learning about it always and at no time, unless you are very egotistical, which, of course, accounts for many books, will you be able to say: now I know all about this and will write about it."
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"Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly."
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"For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator."
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"Now go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here."
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"Imagination is a glorious wonder."
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"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."
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"Astray from a deep sleep chronic as I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I'll steal the bright light of day right away just to keep building at speeds hypersonic."
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"Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it."
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