"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once."

Art, Journalism, Literature, Will

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"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once."

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"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

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"Music awaken our soul."

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"One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner."

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"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."

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"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up by producing the same old show. In the beginning, our enthusiasm and ideals discarded as rubbish all the old fossilized plots."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories."

Andy Goldsworthy, British Artist

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"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."

Charlie Parker, American Musician

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"Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing."

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"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say."

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"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others."

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"Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear."

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"The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married."

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"Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present."

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"The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence."

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"A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent."

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"The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food."

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"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once."

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"There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives."

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