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William Hazlitt

"Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses."

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"Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses."

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"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."

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"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."

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"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."

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"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."

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"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."

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"Music gives life to the soul."

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"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."

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"Music gives strength to the soul."

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"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."

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"The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil."

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"The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough."
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"Grace in women has more effect than beauty."
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"If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation."
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"That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident."
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"All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture."
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"We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts."
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