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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."
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"Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle."

"Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way."

"If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics."

"A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects."

"A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle."

"Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death."
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