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"The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly."
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"Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite."

"The worst thing about being unhappy is not being strong enough to leave the situation."

"She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy."

"The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly."
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"You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart."

"I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going around and around. I was damn near bawling, I felt so damn happy, if you want to know the truth."

"I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are."

"An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's."
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