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"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
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"Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it."
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"There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between."
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"The public are not stupid."
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"Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant."
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"A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency."
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"The public seldom forgive twice."
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"The public can only be really moved by what is genuine."
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"If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that means."
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"So, I think it has to do with the product and what you take to the public. If they like it, they're going to come see you, and if they don't, and if you're kind of getting out of the trendy line of things, then they won't come see you."
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"The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it."
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"It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing."
Work
"No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind."
Quality
"As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers."
Life
"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others."
People
"Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present."
Presence
"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?"
Act
"Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium."
Society
"Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action."
Faith
"The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet."
Past
"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."
Books
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