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"Basil, my dear boy, puts everything that is charming about him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life but his prejudices, his principles, and his common sense. The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists give everything to their art, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in themselves. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures."
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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
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"History develops, art stands still."
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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."
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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
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"Music heals all forms of misery."
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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."
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"Only sick music makes money today."
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"Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career."
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"People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do."
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"Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them."
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"The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation."
Sister
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
Fashion
"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
Income
"One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be."
Prison
"Charity creates a multitude of sins."
Charity
"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure."
Failure
"It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiassed opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless."
Philosophy
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
Friendship
"When good Americans die they go to Paris."
American
"Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly."
Tragedy
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