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"No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job."
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"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."

"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."

"Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!"
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"My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer."

"It's my job to really commit myself to the material and the project and be proud of what I've done, and I am in most cases."

"It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me."
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"In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries."

"Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts."

"The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people."

"Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear."

"If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates."

"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values."

"The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner."
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