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

"The proper stuff of fiction does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."

"Be an artist in everything you do."

"A good artist does not just make imaginations beautiful to the mind, but also more pleasant to the eye with a superb visible touch of excellence."

"The writing of somemenis like a vast bridgethat carries youoverthe many thingsthat claw and tear.The Wine of Forever."

"In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up."
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"Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?"

"Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite."

"Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!"

"There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite."

"It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block."

"Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them."

"In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters."
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