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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"

"Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness."

"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."

"I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange."

"Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings."
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"I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party to the bitter end."

"With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names."

"Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist."

"I only knew a few people, literally a handful of people, al of whom had been in the Party long before I was, all of whom were known by the FBI and were known to the Committee."

"I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines."

"The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing."

"Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity."

"I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust."
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