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"The genuine artist is never "true to life." He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art."
"How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture."
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"Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility."
"I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after."
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